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UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute is committed to shaping a new narrative so that Latinos are meaningfully considered in all policymaking conversations.
“At a time when immigrants have played a key role in maintaining the economy as essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to understand what is at stake when safeguards such as Temporary Protected Status are removed.” Sonja Diaz said.
Read More | September 8, 2020
TDP attorney Chad Dunn said in a press conference Monday, “The constitutional text is crystal clear. There’s an unbroken line of cases going back for decades saying that you cannot give different voting rights to people based on age.”
“Data validated by political scientist Matt Barreto of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute shows there was a 12.75 percent increase in voter turnout among low propensity voters in this year’s presidential primary.”
Up until the last few decades, “you had to go out of your way to learn about your right to vote if you were a farmworker or Spanish speaker anywhere in rural California,” said Matt Barreto, a professor at UCLA and co-founder of the polling firm Latino Decisions. “No one was affirmatively trying to incorporate you.”
One of the early stories that emerged from the nation’s first COVID-19 hotspot was on the disproportionate infection and fatality toll that low-income residents and communities of color faced given their role as essential, frontline workers.
Read More | August 31, 2020
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