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Category: Legislation

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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Bienestar (Well-Being) Profiles / Legislation / Public Policy-Making / Socio-Economic

Covid-19 and Latino Legislative Priorities: TXLPS III Summary

The 3rd Texas Latino Policy Symposium (TXLPS III) urged local and state Covid-19 recovery support and structural policymaking change.  Covid-19 further exposed Texas’s inadequate and unequal investments in education, employment, housing, health care, and economic development.

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Civic-Voters / Legislation / Ordinance / Public Policy-Making

Latino Voters Identifies Top Issues

Jobs (wage), health care (costs), and immigration including treatment of all Latinos were among the top issues for Texas Latino according to a UnidosUS and Latino Decisions conducted “2020 Texas Latino Electorate Survey”.  The survey details Latino expectation from ideal candidates; current level of ‘party support’; and a detailed family related issues they want candidates […]

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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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Action Corner

La Raza Unida Party: Legacy and Action, 9/15-17/2022, San Antonio

Latino Workers: Injury & Death

Latino Voter: Misinformation Targets

Child Care: Access Scarce

Texas Leaders: Hyprocrites on Property Taxes

Be Afraid: Xenophobes Live Here

Texas Policymaking vs. Latino Power Shift Framework

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