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News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

Coronavirus: Didn’t small businesses in Latino areas get the same help as those in white areas?

“The [UCLA] study is focused on understanding how funds from the PayCheck Protection Program were distributed, with the objective of supporting small and microbusinesses to survive throughout the pandemic.”

Read More | March 17, 2021

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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 … Continued

Read More | March 17, 2021

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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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Time is Gavin Newsom’s friend when it comes to the recall

“If we preserve our workforce, California’s businesses will have the labor to recover, and that’s important for the world’s fifth-largest economy,” said Sonja Diaz, one of 70 Latino leaders who wrote a letter to Newsom asking for a more equitable distribution policy. “The better California does in saving lives and opening schools, the higher the public opinion will … Continued

Read More | March 17, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

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 Initiative 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

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