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The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (UCLA LPPI) has released its 2025 update to the Latino Data Hub (LDH), expanding the platform’s capacity to analyze and visualize the conditions shaping Latino life across the United States.

News Articles & Media Coverage → Voting Rights Project

Crafting a 21st Century Voting Rights Act

The UCLA Voting Rights Project, UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute, and the Luskin School of Public Affairs will host an event with voting rights practitioners, expert witnesses, and legal scholars from around the country for sessions to workshop the substantial and procedural pathways to protecting the right to vote during the 21st century. Keynote…

Read More | December 4, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Demography & Population Studies

Election of Kamala Harris invites Americans to consider identity

“In terms of long-term impact, I hope this opens opportunities for women leaders,” Natalie Masuoka said. “The other long-term effect is seeing the power of voters of color. It is an important reflection of how the demographics of the Democratic coalition are recognized by the party. Voters of color are core supporters of the Democratic…

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News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

New Survey Shows How Californians Prioritize Their Families, Revealing The Impact Of COVID 19 On Their Lives, Health And Finances

“The survey data adds personal dimensions to the disproportionate mortality data for Latino deaths,” said Dr. David Hayes-Bautista of the UCLA School of Medicine and Public Health. “Through this survey we can appreciate the concerns of Spanish-speaking farmworkers, truck drivers, and construction workers who have seen their jobs disappear, their paychecks reduced, and access to…

Read More | December 4, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Coronavirus in California: State Could Take ‘Drastic Action’

“The election of Biden and Harris ushers in a new era,” said Sonja Diaz, “but it doesn’t negate that the home state of Vice President-elect Harris has never sent a Latino to the Senate.”

Read More | December 4, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

UCLA LPPI Giving Tuesday 2020

In 2020, The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute worked tirelessly to ensure Latinos and communities of color were centered on issues around the pandemic, the ensuing economic crisis, the election, and the path toward recovery. Please take a glimpse of our work in our year-in-review video.

Read More | December 4, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

One Seat, Competing Pressures as Newsom Considers Senate Pick

“There’s been a failure by both political parties to champion the needs of a growing electorate,” said Sonja Diaz, director of Latino Policy and Politics Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. Choosing a Latino for one of the nation’s most powerful posts, she added, would help reverse that. (Also: USA News, Yahoo News,…

Read More | December 4, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

Latinos who speak Spanish, the most affected by COVID-19

“Through this survey we can appreciate the concerns of Spanish-speaking farm workers, truck drivers and construction workers,” said Dr. David Hayes-Bautista of the UCLA School of Medicine and Public Health.

Read More | December 4, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Torres-Gil on Biden’s Plans for Older Americans

“What I am suggesting for our generation [of baby boomers] is not only must we be advocates whether it is health security, retirement security, pension reform, protecting Social Security or protecting Medicare and Medicaid, but we must find ways to drill down and begin to represent the interests of younger, emerging, ethnic minority populations,” said…

Read More | December 4, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Democrats Reassess What They Thought They Knew About Outreach to Latinos, Starting With the Economy

And after Texas came in comfortably for Trump on Election Day, Julian Castro and Representative Joaquin Castro scheduled a call with Biden pollster Matt Barreto to begin trying to understand what happened along the heavily Hispanic border counties where Trump did well, effectively sealing off yet again the Democratic dream of a blue Texas. (Also:…

Read More | December 4, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Tom Pérez warns: Texas will be a “battle” state in 2024 because of Latinos

The founder of the organization specialized in the Hispanic electorate Latino Decision, Matt Barreto, agreed with Pérez, who highlighted the importance of segmenting so that political parties can reach Latino voters in the most appropriate way, who in his opinion want to be addressed as “Latinos but also like Americans”. (Also: Alianza News and La…

Read More | December 4, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Latino voters were key in Joe Biden’s victory | Opinion

“What we know is that voter participation ( ‘turnout’ , in English) was absolutely historic , ” said Matt Barreto, co – founder of Latino Decisions and one of the gurus of the Hispanic vote. “I’m calculating that 16.5 million (Latinos) voted .” This is much more than the nearly 13 million who voted in…

Read More | December 4, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Mora and Rodriguez-Muñiz: Look to the local to understand the ‘complex’ Latino vote

UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute called the Latino vote decisive in Wisconsin, where Biden won the battleground state. (Also: Killeen Daily Herald, The Marietta Daily Journal, and Finger Lakes Times.)

Read More | December 4, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Study: Hispanics don’t vote in RGV due to poverty, corruption, disconnect with candidates, lack of discourse

“It is true that the Biden campaign did not prioritize Texas a tipping point state and the reason is, it was not a tipping point state. The tipping point states were Pennsylvania and Arizona. That is just a fact of reality,” Matt Barreto said. “Now, that does not mean that I do not want personally…

Read More | December 4, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Trump’s gains in North Philly show Latino voters are not a ‘gimme’ for Democrats

Even with marginal gains for Republicans in Philadelphia, returns crunched by the UCLA Center for Latino Policy & Politics Institute show that precincts where more Latinos lived tended to vote overwhelmingly for Biden, and helped deliver his win.

Read More | December 4, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

CA’s COVID Crackdown, Also: The Real ‘Latino Vote’ Story

“Election night was a rollercoaster, but it seemed that the underrepresentation of diverse voices, particularly Latino voices in major news organizations, were just all about Cubans that voted for Trump, the only demographic to choose him over Vice President Biden in the country,” says Sonja Diaz. (Also: CalMatters.)

Read More | December 4, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Axios roundtable on the future of the workforce

“A lot of the gains made by minority businesses have been outside of the regulatory sphere, meaning that they’ve been able to do this because of personal connections, community connections. They’re under-financed and under-banked. So if we think about policy interventions, we know that tailoring and centering them on the needs of women and minority…

Read More | December 4, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Commentary: Latino voters are engaged. It’s time to take us seriously.

UCLA’s Latino Policy & Politics Institute is estimating that 14.8 million Latinos cast a ballot this year, 2.1 million more than in 2016. Historic turnout by Latinos is impressive despite a health pandemic that has disproportionately impacted Latinos, active efforts to suppress the vote and the looting of the Voting Rights Act in 2013.

Read More | November 20, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Black and brown voters pulled Dems across the finish line—what are their priorities

“The Latino margin will exceed the victory margin in Nevada and Arizona and New Mexico and Colorado. Latinos will have elected Senator Hickenlooper, Senator Luhan, and Senator Kelly. We think Latinos gave over 120,000 vote margin to Vice President in Philadelphia, which means without Latino votes, you would not have had the vice president carry…

Read More | November 20, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Immigrant Rights

Commentary: Nation’s immigration issues are more than just numbers

UCLA cultural anthropologist Jason de Leon reports that about 470 migrants died per year from 1998 to 2012 trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. By comparison, in the United States there were an average of 33,000 “deaths of despair,” a category including suicide, drug overdose and alcoholic liver disease, each year between 1999 and 2017, according to…

Read More | November 20, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Who is the ‘Latino voter?’ 2020 election reflected a diverse bloc that varies region to region

In Maricopa County, home to 60% of the state’s population, precincts with high concentrations of Latino voters showed 75% support for Biden, according to an analysis of voting data by the UCLA Latino Politics and Policy Initiative. In Arizona, Latinos make up 32% of the population and were expected to make up one in four voters…

Read More | November 20, 2020

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