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California Will Send More COVID-19 Vaccines to Vulnerable Areas

New research from UCLA looks at what businesses received loan money and how much they received. It shows ZIP code and race played significant roles in determining how much loan money small business owners in California secured from the federal Paycheck Protection Program last year. “The businesses that had the least amount of technological resources had difficulty…

Read More | March 17, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

UCLA faculty discuss interplay between COVID-19 pandemic, barriers to health care

The Daily Bruin (March 5) interviewed Dr. Michael Rodriguez, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of community health sciences, about the pandemic’s effect on health equity in the United States. “We need to have a system that … makes it easy for people who need care, to get care,” Rodriguez said.

Read More | March 17, 2021

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The CO GOP’s Strategy to Win Over Latino Voters is Littered With Misconceptions

A review of the 2020 presidential election by UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute found that Latino voters across the country were decisive in winning the election for Biden. The report also showed that while there was a media spotlight on the Cuban-American voters who swung to Trump in Florida, the state’s Puerto Rican-American community voted for Biden.

Read More | March 17, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

Vaccine Disparity: How Minorities Are Disproportionately Hit

LPPI Executive Director Sonja Diaz featured on CNN, discussing how age-prioritized vaccine distribution has left behind the Latino community in California, ultimately putting our nation’s essential workers most at risk. “Latinos in the US, their median age is 30. For white Americans, it’s 58. So when you privilege older people in California, that ostensibly is going…

Read More | March 17, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

Why is Gavin Newsom changing California’s COVID-19 reopening tiers again?

Ensuring Latinos get more vaccines is a step in the right direction, said Sonja Diaz, director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute. “Communities of color are keeping the economy afloat, and prioritizing them is not only the right thing to do, but an economic imperative,” Diaz said in a written statement. “The state’s…

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