Maternal health problems and risks disproportionately impact Latinas, particularly in rural underserved areas. By Claudia Azua, LTPC Fellow Texas LULAC, State Director for Women.
Tag: Public Policy
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.
Debates about immigration, crime, and deportation in Texas have been markedly hostile for some time and growing more so each day. Unfortunately, the information most Texans receive about this issue is short-sighted, repetitive, and misguided. The premise on which the current deportation binge is based, “Latino immigrants are crime-prone”, is not only false, the opposite is true.
By Mike Tapia, PhD, LTPC Fellow
Texas hosts the largest immigration detention footprint in the U.S, with detainee counts and facilities disproportionate to its estimated undocumented population share. The detention capacity reflects political and institutional choices—border proximity, state–local cooperation with ICE, and a private-prison industry—more than it mirrors objective immigrant reality. Lawfully present immigrants and U.S. citizens have been detained – revealing that racial profiling and weak verification systems have led to wrongful detentions, disproportionately affecting Latinos and other communities of color.
By Juan Flores
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.
Inflicting mental health and education harm on school children, causing teachers stress, and weakening their effectiveness.
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.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education are under assault through racist DEI distortions and harmful legislation. It’s threatening an ever-widening campaign of racial/ethnic, cultural, and linguistic suppression. It will reduce Latino faculty leadership and enrollment and graduation of the majority workforce for a future Texas.