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News Articles & Media Coverage → Jobs & Labor

Sonja Diaz in KOLD News 13: “Latinas leaving job market at higher rates than other demographics, report says”

The University of California, Los Angeles’s Latino Policy and Politics Initiative found that between March 2020 and March 2021, the number of Latinas in the workforce dropped by nearly 3%. “Some of our most insightful and critical workers are going to be left out of the labor force and it’s going to be detrimental to all Americans,” said Sonja Diaz, founding executive director of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Read More | February 5, 2022

News Articles & Media Coverage → Civil Rights

Kelly Lytle Hernández in Reno Gazette-Journal: “Opinion: While Nevada makes anti-racism history, Biden administration pushes back”

To speak to the 1929 law, Gorman presented the testimony of Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández, the Thomas E. Lifka Chair of History at UCLA. Professor Lytle Hernández recounted the anti-Mexican sentiment pervading America during what historians describe as the “tribal ’20s,” including the “Juan Crow” regime, a racialized system of legal oppression of Latinos in the U.S. mirroring Jim Crow laws targeting Black Americans in the south.

Read More | February 3, 2022

News Articles & Media Coverage → Jobs & Labor

Eric Avila in Beacon Journal: “‘It was … devastating’: The Akron Innerbelt destroyed Black-owned businesses in its path”

Wealthier Black families who could afford to move to other places after highways bisected their neighborhoods did so, said Eric Avila, an urban planning professor at UCLA. Those who stayed behind were left with declining job prospects. “Highway construction fueled the disappearance of jobs in the cities, which left these neighborhoods bereft of any kind of economic opportunity,” Avila said.

Read More | February 3, 2022

Statements → Democracy & Voting Rights

UCLA LATINO POLICY AND POLITICS INITIATIVE ISSUES STATEMENT ON FAILURE OF THE U.S. SENATE TO PASS VOTING RIGHTS LEGISLATION

In response to the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, Sonja Diaz, founding director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative, issued the following statement:

Read More | January 19, 2022

Press Release & Media Advisory → Democracy & Voting Rights

STATEMENT ON VICTORY IN FRANKLIN COUNTY CASE THAT PROTECTS THE WASHINGTON STATE VOTING RIGHTS ACT

A Franklin County Superior Court judge found on Jan. 3 that the Washington Voting Rights Act was constitutional in a case argued by the UCLA Voting Rights Project (UCLA VRP) due to concerns that the county’s at-large elections dilute the Latino vote.

Read More | January 7, 2022

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