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Silvia R. González in The Fresno Bee: “California’s economic relief must focus on Latino communities as the most impacted”

When we look at the economic impact of COVID-19, our research at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative (UCLA LPPI) shows that the unemployment rate for undocumented workers in the U.S. reached 29% and undocumented workers lost almost 25% of their income at the height of the pandemic.

Patricia Gándara in CNN Politics: “Here’s the real tragedy in college admissions”

This addendum by Patricia Gándara at UCLA, one of the authors of the faculty senate report, who felt that the report’s conclusions were being misportrayed and misinterpreted. She wrote, “The consideration of test scores has a disproportionate effect on applicants to UC who are members of groups that have been in the past and are today victims of discrimination.”

NEW RESEARCH DEMONSTRATES ADVERSE IMPACT ON LATINOS DUE TO ELIMINATING THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT’S INDIVIDUAL MANDATE PROVISION

The UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute’s Director of Faculty Research Arturo Vargas Bustamante, who is also a professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, recently published a research letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The research letter showed higher probabilities of Latinos being uninsured, having to seek out emergency care or delaying care due to increased costs after eliminating the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate.

Arturo Vargas Bustamante in Cal Matters: “As California expands Medi-Cal, hundreds of thousands of immigrants will still be left behind”

“This is a great achievement and it is absolutely amazing, but there will still be some who will remain uninsured,” said Arturo Vargas Bustamante, health policy professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. “It’s not universal health care, but the situation for many immigrants in California will be much better.”

Sonja Diaz in Napa Valley Register: “Commentary: Can California Latinos save Democrats in the midterm elections? A new congressional map offers hope”

“Latinos are at the periphery of California politics even though they’re central to the economy and to its future,” Sonja Diaz, founder of UCLA’s Latino Policy & Politics Institute, told me. She said Democrats should seek Latino candidates who can speak to the concerns of Latino communities.

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