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Research by Professors David Hayes-Bautista and Paul Hsu showed increased mortality rates in all Latino age groups: young adults, early middle age, and late middle age.

News Articles & Media Coverage → Criminal Justice

How do you map the cost of mass incarceration in LA?

“We calculate how much is being spent to incarcerate residents of Los Angeles in a local jail system by neighborhood, and every neighborhood where we’re spending more than $1 million per year locking up residents,” says Kelly Lytle Hernández. “That’s a million dollar hood.”

Opinion: Latinos deserve — and expect — equal representation in the Biden administration

According to a recent UCLA study, some 16.6 million Hispanic voters made their voices heard — a 30.9 percent increase since 2016, the largest four-year increase in Latino voting ever and nearly double the national voter increase of 15.9 percent.

LPPI in Univision: “Organizaciones latinas piden a Newsom corregir la distribución “desigual” de vacunas contra el coronavirus”

Latino Policy & Politics Initiative, de la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles, pide a Newsom que de prioridad a la “pluralidad del estado” a la hora de distribuir las vacunas contra el coronavirus para “corregir inmediatamente el despliegue desigual que está dejando atrás a demasiadas comunidades que están en las trincheras”

Additional Signatories: Letter to Governor Newsom: COVID-19 Vaccination is Leaving Latino Californians Behind

Latino leaders from California provide evidence that Latinos are being left behind from access to COVID-19 vaccinations and ask for the implementation of distribution policies that reach Latino communities.

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