Texas Latino Policy Symposium

Improve Health and Economic Security: Expand the Medicaid…

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…

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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…

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Economic Public-Private Development / Education / Labor/Employment

Texans in their twenties: a window into the…

According to one researcher, it appears most Texas children live in neighborhoods with below average opportunities. Further, the state has an underdevelopment problem that is evident in its ability to produce the workforce needed to…

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Health and Human Services / Labor/Employment / Public Policy-Making

Coronavirus Pandemic: The ‘Si Se Puede’ Challenge

The coronavirus pandemic is challenging Latino advocacy strategies and ‘Si se puede’ (yes we can) social change mantra. Latinos are at high-risk of experiencing disproportionate social, financial and health hardships from the coronavirus pandemic. High…

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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…

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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…

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Bienestar (Well-Being) Profiles / Demographic / Socio-Economic

Latino Political, Social, and Economic Progress Across Texas

Latinos have experienced inequitable and discriminatory state and local public policies with negative impacts over generations. Progress has been made but challenges remain. Improvements in the social and economic mobility of Latino families first occurred…

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Texas Latino Policy Symposium

Improve Health and Economic Security: Expand the Medicaid…

Covid-19 and Latino Legislative Priorities: TXLPS III Summary

2020 Census: Impact on Money and Power

Texans in their twenties: a window into the…

Coronavirus Pandemic: The ‘Si Se Puede’ Challenge

Latino Voters Identifies Top Issues

Texas Policies and Latino Economic Mobility

Latino Political, Social, and Economic Progress Across Texas

TXLPS Calender of Events

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