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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TXLPS III Summary Article
Community advocates, researchers, and health and human service providers from across the state met “virtually” for the 3rd Texas Latino Policy Symposium (TXLPS III) on October 1-2, 2020. Their focus was on the decimating impact of Covid-19 on Latino families and state legislative policy priorities targeting recovery support, and their economic mobility.
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