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Matt Barreto in Yahoo! News: “As redistricting deadline nears, commissioners work to reach final decision”

One of the biggest issues still being determined is how to create a majority-Latino district in Yakima. After an analysis released last month by Matt Barreto, faculty director at the UCLA Voting Rights Project, commissioners Sims and Walkinshaw proposed redrawing the 14th Legislative District centered on the Yakima area and including the Yakama Nation Reservation.

Eric Avila in Los Angeles Times: “The human toll of freeway expansion”

“Black neighborhoods were considered to be blight. They were considered to be slums,” Eric Avila, a history and Chicano studies professor at UCLA, told The Times. “The dominant perspective of the time was to eradicate blight, to get rid of slums. These neighborhoods were simply wiped out without any efforts to remediate the damage that…

David Hayes-Bautista in Capital Outlook: “Buying Power: Latino GDP In U.S. Ranks 8th In The World”

Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, co-author of the study and director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA, says the report debunks the idea that Latinos come to the United States to commit crimes or live on public assistance. “We are not lazy or criminal, we come to work, and these…

UCLA LATINO POLICY AND POLITICS INSTITUTE RECEIVES NEW GENERAL FUNDING SUPPORT FROM THE WEINGART FOUNDATION

The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (UCLA LPPI) announced today that it has received $125,000 in general funding over two years from the Weingart Foundation to support all of UCLA LPPI’s functions, including its research, data collection, advocacy and leadership development activities as well as growth of its staff.

Matt Barreto in YakimaHerald.com: “Redistricting commissioners confident they’ll meet deadline; Yakima area district unsettled”

They issued their proposals after commissioning an analysis by Matt Barreto, a political science professor and faculty co-director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project. His analysis found the initial maps proposed by all four commissioners would violate the federal Voting Rights Act, potentially opening up the state to lawsuits and court intervention.

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