Enacted legislation provided modest system stabilization and targeted program improvements but failed to deliver structural Basic Allotment/Foundation School Program reforms necessary to close persistent equity gaps affecting Latino students. At the same time, bills with the strongest potential to strengthen Latino human capital and long-term economic mobility did not advance, representing a significant missed opportunity for Texas’ future workforce.
Maternal health problems and risks disproportionately impact Latinas, particularly in rural underserved areas. By Claudia Azua, LTPC Fellow Texas LULAC, State Director for Women.
Equity-based policies that target non-medical drivers of health (NDOH) can address structural barriers to poor health. By Sabrina E. Cuauro, LTPC Fellow.
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.
Guide on 17 Texas proposed constitutional amendments on the November 4, 2025 electon ballot – pros, cons, and potential impacts on racial/ethnic and economic equity for all Texans. Be an informed voter.
High school students have encountered barriers in finding helpful college information, funding opportunities, key student services, and staff personnel to help them access and succeed in college.
Partisan and racialized politics are behind Texas’ 15 years of obstruction to address decades of perpetually high uninsurance rates. For Latinos, whose uninsured numbers exceed 3 million, representing 55% of the state’s uninsured, their health and financial hardships are compounded.
The dismantling and barriers to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and related challenges to incorporate ethnic studies more fully in public schools are about power and privileges – they deter movements toward racial and social justice, leveling equal opportunities to prosperity, and gaining individual and political power.
See Drs Angela Valenzuela and Emilio Zamora, and Dr. Chloe Sikes
Latinos must remove the current Texas political power structure for most Latino families to realize social, cultural, and economic prosperity. Texas’ poor performance in national ranking among ten major human capital investment areas has a significant effect on marginalizing, politically and socio-economically, generations of Latinos. Unless the underlying political beliefs that enable inequitable policymaking and policies are changed, Latino improvements will be inadequately slow.
