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Our goal is to ensure that all voters in Texas can have access to mail ballots regardless of their age.

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

Professor Matt Barreto in Bloomberg Law: “Half of Unvaccinated People Would Get the Jabs From Their Doctor”

“Local doctors and nurses of color are very trusted messengers. And so our best path forward is by working with those local doctors and nurses who look like us, who are from our community, encouraging us to come into their doctor’s office and take notes,” Matt Barreto, a professor of Chicano/a studies at UCLA, said … Continued

Read More | June 16, 2021

Press Release & Media Advisory → Mobility & Opportunity

Press Release- Latinas were more likely than other groups to drop out of workforce during pandemic, UCLA LPPI study finds

A report published today by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute examines unemployment figures for Latinas as well as changes in the number of Latinas in the U.S. labor force since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read More | June 16, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas in Peninsula Press: “The GOP’s best bet to accelerate gains with Latinos? It may be more Trumpism”

Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas, the director of research at UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute, lamented the fact that Latino voters have typically been treated as a monolith by political pundits. He adds, “Latinos are the second-largest voting group in the country and we just don’t do the same yet, at least not until recently.”

Read More | June 15, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Arts & Culture

Professor Noriega in Los Angeles Times: “Hollywood’s treatment of Latinos is an open wound. Healing it requires a reckoning”

“Since Hollywood’s earliest days, white Americans needed to see nonwhites as different, not similar, said Chon Noriega, a veteran UCLA film historian and the departing director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.”

Read More | June 13, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

LPPI in The Daily Wire: “MSNBC Host: Democrats Are ‘Way Out of the Mainstream’”

A post-election report by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative of 13 key states found that Biden won the Hispanic vote three to one in nine states. “Only in Florida was Biden’s margin among Latino voters less than 2 to 1,” it said.

Read More | June 11, 2021

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