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Column: Vaccine hesitancy among younger Latinos threatens our elders
Protect abuelita at Christmas. By Jean Guerrero | Photo credit: Genaro Molina | LATimes | DEC. 23, 2021 Younger Latinos owe it to our elders to be fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID this winter — or skip the matriarch’s “Nochebuena” party on Christmas Eve and other family gatherings. But ... -
California population continues decline, driven by lower immigration, fewer births and pandemic deaths
California’s population declined by 173,000 between July 2020 and July 2021, bringing the estimated total to 39.37 million, according to state figures released Friday. By Sarah Parvini | LATimes | DEC. 18, 2021 | Photo credit: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times California’s population has continued to decline after falling ... -
Young Latinos are dying of COVID at an alarming rate — the effects could be ...
By ALEJANDRA REYES-VELARDE | LATimes DEC. 9, 2021 Leer en español Every morning, Sergio Ayala combed his daughters’ hair into twin braids, dropped them off at school and headed to work. He loved his job as a field supervisor at his brother-in-law’s pest control company. But he wanted to own a ... -
Ninth Circuit Lifts Injunction Protecting People in ICE Detention from COVID-19
Posted by Rebekah Wolf , Immigration Impact, October 21, 2021 In a split decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on October 20 lifted a lower court’s protections for medically vulnerable people locked up in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The protections included requiring that ICE ... -
Will New NAFTA Worsen Pandemic for Mexicans?
By: David Bacon~ LA Progressive ~ July 8, 2020 For Mexican workers, farmers, and the poor, the pandemic and the new treaty replacing NAFTA are a devastating one-two punch. In the debate over the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement, the new trade treaty replacing NAFTA that went into effect on July ...