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Category: Civic Engagement

Civic Engagement / Civil Rights / Electoral Power

Paid Sick Days: Workers Bienestar (Well-Being) Unfullfilled!

Over 4 million Texas workers, half of them Latinos, have their economic mobility impeded because they lack employer-based paid sick leave. The 87th State Legislative Session preferred focusing on divisive issues and corporate hand-outs versus supporting workers to gain economic prosperity on a level playing field. The legislature and AG continually fight against cities passing […]

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Civic-Voters / Demographic / Electoral Power

A Reflection on the Latino Vote in Texas

Political pundits have tried to make sense of the disappointing 2020 outcome in Texas for those of us who have wanted to see the state turn blue. In this essay, I provide my analysis of what happened, the challenges that we face, and the opportunities that we have in turning Texas blue….

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Accountability / Civic Engagement / Electoral Power

Texas Legislature, Advocacy, and Latino Interest

One would expect Latino interests and concerns among the 87thLegislative Session’s budget priorities given they represent 40% of the states’ population and are a major reason for the state gaining 2 congressional seats: however, …

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Accountability / Civic Engagement / Education

Latino Professors Over-Perform and Underpaid

Latino faculty representation and leadership is crucial across Texas’s higher education system. Yet, Latino/a faculty is experiencing wage inequities regardless of equivalent and better qualifications. A group of Latino/a professors at UT Austin have been leading efforts to redress the extensively documented promotion and pay inequities that cut across the UT Higher Education System.

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Civic Engagement / Communications / Electoral Power / Legislation / Public Policy-Making

Electoral Power and Latino Family Economic Mobility

Latino electoral power is necessary to achieve structural policy change and real economic mobility. Recent record high voter turn-out must fuel year-round organizing efforts for voter participation to shift the states’ power structure as is beginning in Georgia and Arizona. 

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Civic Engagement / Health and Human Services / Legislation / Public Policy-Making

Improve Health and Economic Security: Expand the Medicaid Program

Latinos comprise over 62% (3.2 million) of Texas’s uninsured population.  It includes over 2.5 million and 674,000 Latino adults and children respectively.  These numbers do not include Covid-19 related loss of employment-based health insurance coverage. 

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Demographic / Electoral Power / Public Policy-Making

2020 Census: Impact on Money and Power

The coronavirus pandemic has rocked our world, completely changing our lives and our routines.  It is a significant threat to Latinos’ 2020 census response and outreach efforts.  Money and political power are at stake. Texas community outreach strategies are already challenged by President Trump’s administration discriminatory and inhumane policies directed at immigrants, and the state’s […]

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Civic Engagement / Electoral Power / Legislation / Public Policy-Making

Texas Policies and Latino Economic Mobility

Without transformative change to the State’s minimalist policy making approach, Latinos will experience another generation of unequal opportunity for economic mobility. Latinos and their allies must transform Texas policy-making to an approach driven more by principles of inclusion and equity. Symposia I and II participants identified economic mobility issues and policy recommendations grounded in the […]

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Court Ruling Jeopardizes Texas Dream Act

U.S. Justice Department Sues Galveston County’s Discriminatory Redistricting Plan

Worth Repeating: Dan Patrick’s CRT Absurdity

End Title 42 – Illegal Actions & Lives Harmed

Climate Disaster Recovery: History of Mismanagement & Discrimination
Part 1 | Part 2

Texas Policymaking vs. Latino Power Shift Framework

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