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California Latinos of all age groups ‘multiple’ times more likely to die from COVID-19 than whites, UCLA study finds

“What was astounding was that in every age group, the Latino death rate was multiple times higher than white – multiple,” said David Hayes-Bautista, UCLA professor of public health and medicine and lead author of the study. The death disparities, he said, have “shown a glaring spotlight” on a long history of barriers to health care.

These ‘political orphans’ deserve help

Cecilia Menjivar of UCLA says, “It amounts to a social death in many ways” on the precarious immigration status of many TPS recipients.

These California Latinos didn’t grow up speaking Spanish. Here’s why

“The vast majority of California’s bilingual programs were gutted. That whole generation had minimal, fig-leaf bilingual education,” said Otto Santa Ana, a professor emeritus of Chicano/a studies at UCLA.

Latino Newscast: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Would Help Economic Recovery + Labor Law Protects You Against Retaliation for Immigration Status, California Commissioner Says.

LPPI’s Research Director, Rodrigo Domínguez Villegas shares the results of a recent LPPI study that provides figures on how the legalization of the 11 million undocumented immigrants could help the economic recovery of the country.

COVID-19: Latinos in San Luis Obispo County are Twice as Likely to get COVID as Others

Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, discusses why Latinos in San Luis Obispo County are twice as likely to get COVID as other ethnic groups. “Latinos have the highest labor force participation of any group and large, big supportive families, but crammed into very small households,”…

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