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Category: Public Policy-Making

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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Education / Equity / Public Policy

Texas is Not Financing College Readiness

Texas boasts about its economic power and its investment in economic development, but it doesn’t ensure that there are high standards for math and science. It really does create a double standard when you start seeing there are more affluent, wealthy districts who are providing that access. The current system maintains privilege for some and […]

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Labor/Employment / Public Policy-Making / Women

Latinas and Covid – 19 Workforce Impact: Who’s Paying attention?

The resilience and importance of Latinas to our families have always been apparent. Their pivotal population and economic contribution to Texas’s growth and future must no longer be undermined or ignored. Covid-19 magnified multiple gender gap issues in a state ranked among the lowest nationally in gender inequities, particularly toward women of color.

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Labor Training / Labor/Employment / Public Policy-Making / Women

One and a half years since COVID: A look into the Texas Employment recovery

Between the lingering impacts of last year’s economic shutdown and emerging variants of the coronavirus, the long-term effects of the pandemic on the workforce are still uncertain. Texas employment has returned to pre-pandemic levels, but recovery has been uneven, e.g., disproportionately impacting black and Hispanic low-skilled workers, and low-to-medium income households.

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Health and Human Services / Health Workforce / Public Policy-Making

How Stressed Are Health Providers During the Covid-19 Pandemic?

Latina front-line Covid-19 health workers and providers experience negative effects in the workplace and at home. Their care to farmworkers, immigrants, the homeless, and people living in poverty led to high levels of stressors and anxiety and depressive symptomatology.  Policy and program interventions are urged to address their need and well-being.

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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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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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