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UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative’s Executive Director, Sonja Diaz, appears on KPCC-FM to discuss the future of Americans post COVID-19. “Important facts about what disparities exist for Latino communities is necessary as campaigns, candidates, and even elected officials to seek to figure out American recovery,” said UCLA’s Sonja Diaz.

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

Death in the prime of life: Covid-19 proves especially lethal to younger Latinos

“When communities have very solid social umbrellas, covid is not going to make much headway,” said David E. Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. “But when you get communities that have great big, gaping holes — lack of health insurance, lack … Continued

Read More | March 29, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

Opioid Overdose Rising Among Latinos Amid the Pandemic

David Hayes-Bautista, a UCLA professor of medicine and public health, said that Latinos have kept working through the pandemic. “In Washington, the idea is you’re poor because you don’t work. That’s not the issue with Latinos,” Hayes-Bautista was quoted in a report.

Read More | March 29, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

COVID-19: “The Pandemic has Left no Community Untouched in California”

RadioBilingue (March 15, Spanish) interviewed Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, about the impact of the pandemic on California’s Latinos.

Read More | March 29, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

The Latino vote: It doesn’t exist, but it will decide the future

The UCLA Latino Politics and Policy Initiative looked at voting data from the 2020 election and concluded that Biden took 75% of the Latino vote in Maricopa County, which accounts for 60% of the state’s population. Unlike in many other parts of the country, a Democratic grassroots effort to get out the vote knocked on … Continued

Read More | March 29, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Demography & Population Studies

Latino leaders nominate 5 East LA movies for the National Film Registry

Chon Noriega, director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, says that some Chicano directors who focused on gang stories “were looking toward works like the Oscar-winning The Godfather as a model for bringing their stories into the mainstream” and should not be accused of exploitation.

Read More | March 29, 2021

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