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The report reveals a narrative deficit in local media coverage of Latinos and highlights how Latino journalists contributed to more inclusive and positive portrayals of Latino communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read More | June 30, 2025
A new faculty report from the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) finds that unstable housing is a key factor pushing unaccompanied Latino immigrant children into the workforce across California.
Read More | June 26, 2025
Developed with guidance from a statewide advisory committee of climate justice, public health, and data equity experts, the dashboard shows that Latino neighborhoods often face more extreme heat days and poorer air quality—two environmental conditions linked to climate change and associated with health disparities.
Read More | June 24, 2025
A new data brief from the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute and the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge reveals that these residents, many of whom lived paycheck to paycheck before the Eaton Canyon Fire, may face additional hardships during the recovery.
Read More | May 22, 2025
The policy brief uses the American Community Survey to explore trends in self-employment, earnings, education, and incorporation over the past decade and a half.
Read More | May 8, 2025
The study comes at a crucial time as neighborhoods such as Altadena, which recently experienced significant losses due to the Eaton Canyon wildfire, work to rebuild.
Read More | April 29, 2025
The potential significant cuts to the federal Medicaid budget, coupled with California’s sizable budget gap to fund the Medi-Cal (California’s Medicaid program) expansion, bring severe challenges for Medi-Cal.
Read More | April 24, 2025
A new Latino Data Hub brief highlights the challenges faced by Arizona Latino workers employed in high automation risk occupations. Leveraging data from the 2023 pooled 5-Year American Community Survey (ACS), the analysis provides a comprehensive look at the demographic, socioeconomic, and geographic factors shaping this critical segment of the workforce.
Read More | April 14, 2025
As Women’s History Month draws to a close, two new data briefs from the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) spotlight the resilience of self-employed women entrepreneurs in California.
Read More | March 27, 2025
This data brief highlights key demographic factors among Latinos living in Maricopa County, including, human capital, employment trends, income, educational attainment, and homeownership rates.
Read More | March 11, 2025
The findings are striking: while Latinos comprise nearly 40% of California’s population, they represent only 14.3% of the Supreme Court and 12.3% of the District Courts of Appeal.
Read More | March 4, 2025
A new policy brief from the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI), a leader in advancing Latino-focused research and policy solutions, warns that the Trump Administration’s executive order ending birthright citizenship will have devastating and far-reaching consequences—even if courts ultimately strike it down.
Read More | February 13, 2025
With over two decades of public service, Garcia will spearhead strategy and capacity-building initiatives, advancing the Institute’s mission to address urgent policy issues affecting Latinos and underrepresented communities, including environmental justice, health equity, housing, and economic mobility.
Read More | February 3, 2025
Over half of California’s 4.5 million workers in high automation-risk jobs are Latino, making them disproportionately vulnerable to the economic and societal shifts brought about by automation, according to a new report out today from the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI). (Se incluye la versión en español.)
Read More | January 23, 2025
The analysis, which builds on previous LPPI research released last week, underscores the vulnerability of Latino workers and residents in key evacuation zones.
Read More | January 15, 2025
A new data brief from the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute and the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge reveals that the Palisades, Hurst, and Eaton wildfires have far-reaching effects. (Se incluye la versión en español.)
Read More | January 10, 2025
El informe resalta los numerosos desafíos que enfrentan las personas Afro-Latinx en comparación a otros grupos. Aunque las Afro-Latinx tienen tasas de propiedad de vivienda más bajas (40.6%) que las Latinx no negras (54%), quienes sí tienen una vivienda, tienen un valor de propiedad más alto que las Latinx no negras y que la población de EE.UU. en su conjunto — $210,000 frente a $200,000.
Read More | December 26, 2024
The study draws from the U.S. Census Bureau to analyze the trends in microbusiness ownership—firms with fewer than 10 employees—providing a detailed view of the growth and challenges facing Latine microentrepreneurs during the 2020 economic downturn.
Read More | November 20, 2024
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