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LULAC Lambda awards scholarships to two LGBTQ Latino professionals pursuing advanced degrees
One recipient hopes to work in the foreign policy sector, while the other is focused on ensuring educational equity.
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Brian Castro (left) and Victor Javier Rodriguez – Photos courtesy of LULAC Lambda.
Two LGBTQ Latino professionals who one day wish to work at the highest levels of the federal government have been selected by the local Latinx LGBTQ organization LULAC Lambda to receive scholarships that will help them pursue advanced degrees.
For the fourth year in a row, LULAC Lambda, one of 1,000 chapters across the United States affiliated with the League of United Latin American Citizens, is providing scholarships to highly-qualified LGBTQ Latinx students seeking to further their education. The scholarships are intended to help deserving scholars achieve their pursue bachelor’s, Master’s, or doctorate without taking on a substantial debt burden.
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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) on Tuesday placed partial blame for the recent surge in COVID-19 cases on immigrants crossing into the U.S. from its southern border. Part of the problem is the southern border is open and we’ve got 88 countries that are coming across the border and they don’t have vaccines so none of them are vaccinated and they’re getting dispersed throughout the country, Reynolds said to reporters, according to the Des Moines Register.
The Register notes that Reynolds has been a vocal critic of President Biden
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Health experts have largely attributed to the recent surge in cases to the more infectious delta variant, which has now become the dominant strain in the U.S. The surge has also been dubbed the outbreak of the unvaccinated as people who are not immunized against COVID-19 have been disproportionately affected by this recent surge.
This has nothing to do with immigrants, he said.
Instead, Henry said, Reynolds hasn t done enough to make sure Iowans are vaccinated. For her to cry wolf about this doesn’t seem to make sense in light of the fact that she hasn’t done the work here in Iowa to make sure that everybody gets vaccinated, he said.
About 49% of Iowa s 3.2 million residents are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. Among adults, 61% are fully vaccinated and 65% have received at least one shot. Those figures have barely budged in recent weeks, as demand for the shots has plummeted.
Reynolds said in April she hoped 75% of Iowa adults would be vaccinated by the end of June. Although Iowa fell short of that goal, the governor touted the state s vaccination numbers Tuesday, saying she was encouraged while also acknowledging the vaccination rate has slowed. COVID-19 infections are increasing nationwide because of the spread of the highly contagious delta variant of the virus. In Iowa, hospitaliza