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The SELA report was conducted between May 8 and May 14, 2020 under the direction of Dr. Matt Barreto and Ms. Claudia Rodriguez of Latino Decisions and reached 500 SELA residents through cellphone, landline and Internet surveys.

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

News Articles & Media Coverage → Mobility & Opportunity

Isabel Guzman is officially confirmed to lead the Small Business Administration

According to a UCLA LPPI Study, since June 2020, Black men have experienced the highest unemployment rate of any demographic group. In Feb. 2021, the category remained the highest at 10.2%, almost double that of white men (5.3%). Black women experienced the second highest unemployment rate, at 8.9%. This is just one state.

Read More | March 29, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

In likely California recall, energizing Latino voters is key

One of Soto’s guests, Matt Barreto, politics professor at UCLA and founder of the polling firm LD Insights, which helps elect Democratic candidates, peeled the polling data like an onion to explain why Trump did better than many had expected. “I think sometimes we see that very high level of support of the immigrant experience … Continued

Read More | March 29, 2021

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