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Este es un momento clave, cuando quieres incorporar a todos estos inmigrantes indocumentados de edad avanzada al sistema de atenciรณn mรฉdicaโ, dice Arturo Vargas Bustamante, profesor de polรญtica y gestiรณn de la salud en la Escuela de Salud Pรบblica Fielding de la UCLA. Si dejas desatendidas sus afecciones crรณnicas, dice, simplemente terminarรกn en la sala de emergencias y serรก mรกs costoso tratarlas.
Read More | May 1, 2022
Para Raรบl Hinojosa-Ojeda, profesor asociado de estudios chicanos en UCLA, los hispanos tambiรฉn ganaron importancia polรญtica a partir de entonces. La comunidad fue ganando terreno en puestos polรญticos clave. โEl distrito mรกs corrupto del LAPD estaba en la comunidad latina y los sucesos del 92 forzaron a muchos cambios. Se reforzaron las alianzas polรญticas entre los hispanos y afroamericanosโ, comentรณ Hinojosa.
Read More | April 29, 2022
California will soon be on the receiving end of billions of dollars in public funding for economic development. An estimated $42 billion will come from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) โ the $1.9 trillion stimulus package designed to aid economic and public health recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic โ and $48 billion from Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), totaling $93 billion in federal investment. A further $46 billion will come from the stateโs Community Economic and Resilience Fund (CERF) and from the stateโs budget surplus.
Read More | April 27, 2022
Si bien las latinas estรกn emergiendo como una poblaciรณn importante de trabajadoras, รบltimamente tienden mรกs que cualquier otro grupo a dejar la fuerza laboral durante la pandemia. Un investigador acadรฉmico explica estos hallazgos y las recomendaciones de polรญticas para ayudar a estas mujeres, incluido el aumento del salario mรญnimo y la provisiรณn de mรกs apoyo para el cuidado de los niรฑos.
Read More | April 26, 2022
The attorney generalโs job expands far beyond crime, said Sonja Diaz, founding director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative and a former deputy under then-Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris. The state Department of Justice oversees the enforcement of environmental and housing laws and runs a civil rights division. California has also taken an important leadership role in recent years, she said, to fight efforts in Republican-led states that target reproductive rights and the LGBTQ community.
Read More | April 25, 2022
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