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Category: Bienestar (Well-Being) Profiles

Accountability / Bienestar (Well-Being) Profiles / Public Policy

Data Brief: Latino Improvement Profiles Across Texas’ Economic Regions Between 2007 – 2011 and 2015-019

The U.S. Civil Rights Commission  Hearing held in San Antonio in 1968, and the 1997 publication “The New Texas Challenge: Population Change and the Future of Texas” led by Steve H. Murdock are entangled.  Latino bienestar improvements are noted but remain unsatisfactory across the state.

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Accountability / Bienestar (Well-Being) Profiles / Public Policy

Latino Center for Social Justice and Equity

The Latino Texas Policy Center (LTPC) is a developing statewide organization based in San Antonio. The Texas Latino Policy Symposium (TXLPS), which includes this blog, has described the need; and advocated for leadership to establish a Latino ‘Think Tank.’ Its purpose is to increase the policy-making influence of Latinos.

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Communications / Electoral Power / Public Policy / Socio-Economic

Latino Wealth, Political Power, and Policy Influence

Latino economic disparities cut across wages and benefits, median income, home ownership, debts, and savings. Their middle class and wealth-building status affect choices to strengthen family bienestar (well-being), civic involvement to gain political power and policy influence, and structural changes needed.

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Civic Engagement / Public Policy / Socio-Economic

Inflation and Texas’ Regressive Tax Policy

The people and vital services least able to handle increased costs for food, gas, housing, and utilities are the ones least likely to benefit from inflation-related adjustments. Yet, the Texas Senate Finance charged with examining Texans’ current tax exemptions and whether adjustments are merited because of inflation are looking for more ways to keep businesses […]

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Bienestar (Well-Being) Profiles / Civic Engagement / Public Policy

Latinos Think Tank: A Catalyst for Policymaking Power

Texas needs a Latino-focused Think Tank. It is confounding and disconcerting that none currently exist. Preferably, the Think Tank should be an independent non-institutional organization that can contribute to critical policy dialogue and a catalyst to impact public and private policymaking.

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Bienestar (Well-Being) Profiles / Electoral Power / Public Policy-Making

Latino Bienestar (Well-Being) among Texas’ 12 Economic Regions

Latinos are a diverse population that also encompass their respective achievement of social and economic progress across the states’ 12 distinct economic regions.  The authors argued that much more progressive policies are needed than even before the Covid-19 pandemic. That Latino political engagement and messaging must increase to influence policymaking.

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Civic Engagement / Public Policy-Making / Socio-Economic

Texas’ Tax System: Why We Need To Change It

Texas’ ideology to accommodate the tax policy needs of the corporate sector while limiting human capital investments (e.g., education, health, housing, economic development) that equalize opportunities for economic mobility are legendary.   The state’s regressive tax structure is a core pilar of this ideology where Latino and Black households are inequitably impacted. They pay more than […]

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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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Immigration / Public Policy-Making / Socio-Economic

Immigrants Economically Vital But Disparaged and Unjustly Treated

Immigrants are a vital part of Texas’ economy. Their consumer spending power totaled 120.3 billion dollars, and they paid $40.6 billion dollars in local, state, and federal taxes. They are significant economic contributors to every Congressional District….

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Bienestar (Well-Being) Profiles / Communications / Health and Human Services

Milestone of Misery

 More than 100,000 Latinos have now lost their lives to COVID-19. This past week we went over this lamentable threshold. It took about ten months for 50,000 Latinos to die from the pandemic, but it only took four months to add another 50,000. More than 29,000 Latinos have died in California and more than 23,000 […]

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