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Opioid Overdose Rising Among Latinos Amid the Pandemic

David Hayes-Bautista, a UCLA professor of medicine and public health, said that Latinos have kept working through the pandemic. “In Washington, the idea is you’re poor because you don’t work. That’s not the issue with Latinos,” Hayes-Bautista was quoted in a report.

Read More | March 29, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

COVID-19: “The Pandemic has Left no Community Untouched in California”

RadioBilingue (March 15, Spanish) interviewed Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, about the impact of the pandemic on California’s Latinos.

Read More | March 29, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

The Latino vote: It doesn’t exist, but it will decide the future

The UCLA Latino Politics and Policy Initiative looked at voting data from the 2020 election and concluded that Biden took 75% of the Latino vote in Maricopa County, which accounts for 60% of the state’s population. Unlike in many other parts of the country, a Democratic grassroots effort to get out the vote knocked on…

Read More | March 29, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Demography & Population Studies

Latino leaders nominate 5 East LA movies for the National Film Registry

Chon Noriega, director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, says that some Chicano directors who focused on gang stories “were looking toward works like the Oscar-winning The Godfather as a model for bringing their stories into the mainstream” and should not be accused of exploitation.

Read More | March 29, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Mobility & Opportunity

Isabel Guzman is officially confirmed to lead the Small Business Administration

According to a UCLA LPPI Study, since June 2020, Black men have experienced the highest unemployment rate of any demographic group. In Feb. 2021, the category remained the highest at 10.2%, almost double that of white men (5.3%). Black women experienced the second highest unemployment rate, at 8.9%. This is just one state.

Read More | March 29, 2021

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