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UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center in UCLA Newsroom: “UCLA receives $1.45 million bequest for research related to artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz”

The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center has received $1.45 million in a bequest gift to support research and scholarship related to the art and life of Raphael Montañez Ortiz, a Puerto Rican American pioneer of the 1960s destructivist art movement, founder of the first Latino museum in the United States and recipient of the UCLA…

LPPI in Bluffton Today: “Federal unemployment programs end Saturday: Here’s what you need to know in South Carolina.”

Latinas hardest hit by job loss as economy recovers. Latinas have left the workforce in droves as a result of the pandemic. A report by the UCLA Latino Politics and Policy Initiative found that Latinas have the highest rates of unemployment and workforce departure of any demographic in the U.S. (June 16) AP

Statement From UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute on the For The People Act

Statement from Sonja Diaz, founding director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute on the failure of the U.S. Senate to move the For The People Act forward.

Professor David Hayes-Bautista in McKnight’s News, Perspective, and Analysis: “Affordable housing options needed to address growing, aging Latino population”

“When Social Security was instituted, then Medicare built on top of it, the assumption was that at age 65, Latinos would get both,” David Hayes-Bautista, Ph.D., a professor of public health and medicine and director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the UCLA School of Medicine, told the media…

Dr. David Hayes-Bautista in From Press: “Tackling Latino health, caregiving and housing is key as older population grows”

Older Latinos already face housing, health, and caregiving challenges, and concern is growing that as the “browning of the graying” of America continues, as longtime UCLA public health researcher David Hayes-Bautista has written, the economic and social impact on Hispanics and the U.S. will be significant.

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