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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.

Sonja Diaz in Spectrum News NY-1: “Cash payments take center stage in Newsom’s 1st recall ad”

Sonja Diaz, founding director of the Latino Policy & Politics Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, said Newsom’s positive ad presents messaging that will resonate with families and young people who have been hard hit by the pandemic by highlighting the cash payments, help for businesses and an expansion of preschool.

Professor Matt Barreto in Bloomberg Law: “Half of Unvaccinated People Would Get the Jabs From Their Doctor”

“Local doctors and nurses of color are very trusted messengers. And so our best path forward is by working with those local doctors and nurses who look like us, who are from our community, encouraging us to come into their doctor’s office and take notes,” Matt Barreto, a professor of Chicano/a studies at UCLA, said…

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