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This data brief highlights key demographic factors among Latinos living in Maricopa County, including, human capital, employment trends, income, educational attainment, and homeownership rates.

News Articles & Media Coverage → Arts & Culture

Chon Noriega in ARTFIX Daily: “DIVERSEartLA Returns to the LA Art Show”

The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center is bringing a special project curated by Chon Noriega titled Immersive Distancing by LA-based artists Carmen Argote and Zeynep Abes, which will examine recent media art produced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) in McKnight’s Senior Living: “Engaging the LEP patient population with virtual care”

According to a report issued by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute and the UCLA Health Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture, “culture, needs, and population demographics must be taken into account” when designing and implementing telehealth.

Matt Barreto in The New York Times: “Latino Voters Moved Toward Republicans. Now Biden Wants Them Back.”

“When you have a group that is so new, so big and is growing at such high rates, it requires constant conversation,” said Matt Barreto, a Democratic pollster who has focused on Latino voters for decades and is involved in the Building Back Together efforts.

Arturo Vargas Bustamante in Associated Press: “Health care for older immigrants sees momentum among states”

Immigrants are more likely to remain in the U.S. compared with two decades ago, according to Arturo Vargas Bustamante, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles’ Fielding School of Public Health. According to a July study he co-wrote, immigrants’ median age increased from 37 to 45 between 2000 and 2018.

Laura Gómez in Boston Globe: “Stoking fears of immigrants has been part of the Republican platform for decades. But something is different this time”

“We are just in this moment now where everyone is trying to figure out how far to the right, how far into white nationalism can the GOP go and still maintain a sense of legitimacy,” said Laura Gómez, a law professor at the University of California who has written on race, Latino voters, and immigration…

Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) in Los Angeles Times: “Op-Ed: Democrats should seize this recall as a practice round for the midterms”

At the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute, our research indicates that in the 20 years leading up to the 2022 midterm elections, there will have been a 126% increase of Latino registered voters and a 94% increase of Asian American voters. They are more likely than white voters to be undecided about the recall…

Sonja Diaz in Spectrum News 1: “Sonja Diaz Interview with Spectrum News One”

UCLA LPPI’s Founding Director, Sonja Diaz, discusses with Spectrum News One the rationale behind the federal ruling the deemed DACA unlawful, the ramifications of the ruling for California’s 200,000+ DACA recipients, how this decision could influence Latino voters in the mid-terms, and what Latino voters expect from the Biden Administration and Democrats in the wake…

David Hayes-Bautista in The Los Angeles Post: “Politics over lives – primary reason for Washington’s failure in pandemic control”

Professor of medicine David Hayes-Bautista at UCLA pointed out that there should have been fewer deaths in the U.S., but the inaction of the government led to a tragedy. According to a poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, most U.S. citizens believe the U.S. government shall be held accountable for the…

Laura E. Gómez in Harvard Business Review: “UCLA Law’s Laura E. Gómez: Understanding Critical Race Theory, Part 2”

Laura E. Gómez, a law professor at UCLA, teaches in the school’s Critical Race Studies Program, which uses CRT to explore how legal and other systems intersect with race in the U.S. In the final episode of Season 2, she tells host Porter Braswell that racism isn’t about individual prejudice, but rather about the messages…

LPPI in Mitú: “Latinas Are the Demographic Most Negatively Financially Impacted By the Pandemic”

A new report from UCLA detailed an under-reported phenomenon. According to a report by the Latino Policy & Politics Institute (LPPI) at UCLA, Latinas were financially impacted by COVID-19 more than any other demographic.

Chon Noriega in SURFACE: “At the LA Art Show, Women and Technology Take Center Stage”

The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center will bring a project curated by Chon Noriega titled Immersive Distancing by local artists Carmen Argote and Zeynep Abes, who will focus on recent media art produced during the pandemic.

Arturo Vargas Bustamante in The Sacramento Bee: “Will your family doctor start giving COVID vaccines? A new California effort encourages it”

Arturo Vargas Bustamante, a health policy and management associate professor at UCLA, also said the plan could help, but only as long as public vaccination sites remain open. Often, he said, vaccine events in the community attract those who are uninsured or might not have a way to get to a doctor’s appointment without a…

Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) in Ames Tribune: “Job growth, early retirement, career changes contribute to Story County worker shortage, Ames expert says”

Latinas have left the workforce in droves as a result of the pandemic. A report by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute found that Latinas have the highest rates of unemployment and workforce departure of any demographic in the U.S.

UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute Receives $3 Million in Ongoing State Funding to Support Data-Driven Research

The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute has received $3 million in ongoing annual state funding to conduct research and develop policy solutions to address existing inequities that disproportionately impact Latinos and other communities of color.

Read More | July 13, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Immigrant Rights

Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda in The Economist: “Citizenship for America’s 11m undocumented immigrants would boost the economy”

Granting citizenship, however, remains the most controversial of all policy options. A recent analysis by Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda and colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles argues that it should not be. Legal recognition of undocumented immigrants would provide a big boost for America’s economy as many would begin paying taxes for the first time.

Read More | July 13, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Diversity & Inclusion

Professor Efrén Pérez in MPR News: “BIPOC, Latinx, POC: How we do — and don’t — identify and why”

Efrén Pérez, Professor of Political Science and Psychology at UCLA, and director of its Race, Ethnicity, Politics, and Society experimental lab discusses with Angela Davis of MPR News on racial and ethnic identities.

Read More | July 13, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Jobs & Labor

Kassandra Hernandez in Cal Matters: “Investing in Latinas is investing in the future”

Kassandra Hernandez, LPPI Research Analyst, discusses that comprehensive social policies are essential for the women and children most affected by inequity but least represented in government relief and recovery efforts.

Read More | July 13, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Diversity & Inclusion

Eric Avila in the Los Angeles Times: “‘We need to fix this city’: Post-Garcetti Los Angeles at a crossroads”

Before the future of Los Angeles can be imagined, Eric Avila, an urban cultural historian at UCLA, argues for a better understanding of the habits and biases of the past. Los Angeles, he said, needs to let go of its old identity and see itself as a city, not as a disparate collection of neighborhoods,…

Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) in Times Telegraph: “Stimulus payments, public benefits push NY personal income past pre-pandemic level”

Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante in News Wise: “Aging U.S. Immigrant Population Poses Challenges to State Health Care Systems”

A team led by Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management and director of faculty research at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI), has found the United States faces a potential crisis in terms of health care for documented and undocumented immigrants.

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