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Texas 89th Legislative Session: Latino Impact Report Series, Preface, Methodology and Context

The Texas 89th Legislative Session: Latino Impact Report Series, produced by the Latino Texas Policy Center (LTPC), evaluates legislation through a Human Capital Investment/Bienestar (HCI/B) framework – assessing whether policies invest in, protect, or undermine the foundational conditions that allow Latino individuals, families, and communities to thrive. It is a unified, equity-centered approach used to evaluate how legislation affects opportunity, mobility, and long-term economic outcomes for Latino communities.  

 

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Echoes of Jim Crow: Ultra-Far Right Texas and the Attack on Latino Families

Texas’ ultra-right and regressive political and policy environment is worsening the social, cultural, and economic mobility for many Latino families – it echoes and has similarities to the Jim Crow era.  Despite progress, disparities and inequities remain, with structural similarities emerging to systems that marginalized African Americans, Latinos, and low-income Whites. All emerging under an undemocratic and exploitive Texas vision. It must be resisted with equitable human capital investment in all Texas families.

 

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