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The UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute team is devoted to advocating for communities of color across the U.S.
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute is committed to shaping a new narrative so that Latinos are meaningfully considered in all policymaking conversations.
Important analysis conducted by UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Initiative detailed that the Latinx electorate voted for Biden over Trump by a 3-to-1 margin across critical states. Moreover, the impact of Latinx votes was felt in states with large Latinx populations and states where the Latinx population is smaller but whose impact is just as strong when participating in multiracial coalitions—perhaps best exemplified by Arizona and Georgia.
Read More | April 21, 2022
Between 2010 and 2020, Latinos accounted for more than half of the overall increase in U.S. population growth — more than any other racial and ethnic group. According to recent U.S. Census data, Latinos make up about 18% of the nation’s population. That’s 62.1 million people.
Read More | April 20, 2022
Laura E. Gómez, director of UCLA School of Law’s Critical Race Studies recognized that official proclamations condemning our own past were “definitely part of this larger trend…the desire in this present moment of national reckoning with our past racism…”
Read More | April 17, 2022
A los estudiosos les ha intrigado durante décadas la “paradoja latina”: el hecho de que, a pesar de los altos índices de pobreza y de no estar asegurados, “los latinos tienen una esperanza de vida mucho más alta de lo que cabría esperar”, dijo el Dr. Michael A. Rodríguez, profesor de ciencias de la salud comunitaria y de medicina familiar en la UCLA.
Read More | April 16, 2022
A UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative study on Latino turnout in the 2020 election found that while a majority of Latino voters in Miami-Dade County in Florida backed former President Trump, Biden decisively won the Latino vote in other key areas, including in Arizona and Georgia, where those margins likely helped tip the states in his favor en route to narrow victories.
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