By Lou Cannon, State Net Capitol Journal
February 22, 2021
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Seeking to reduce economic inequities, President Joe Biden’s administration has proposed substantial financial payments to children, reopened the federal health care marketplace and delayed the 2020 census, which is suspected of undercounting urban residents and minorities.
Biden seeks to provide $3,600 a year for children under age 6 and $3,000 for children under 18. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, has proposed a similar plan with slightly larger payments, raising the possibility of bipartisan action.
Many Americans also lost workplace health insurance, prompting a spike in Medicaid enrollment.
Medicaid, the federal-state program that provides health coverage for low-income families and the disabled, had declined for two consecutive years, but increased by 6.l million or 8.6 percent from February to September 2020, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Weeks before the 1980 census officially began, the Federation for American Immigration Reform launched its campaign to exclude unauthorized immigrants from population counts that, according to the Constitution, must include the whole number of persons in each state. Image: Ernie Leyba/The Denver Post via Getty Images
Even before taking office, former President Donald Trump s administration obsessed over the U.S. census.
From a failed bid for a citizenship question to a presidential memo about unauthorized immigrants that was fast-tracked to the Supreme Court, its moves over the past four years followed a playbook first drawn up more than four decades ago by the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
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The judge is likely to overturn DACA protections for more than 640,000 undocumented young people.
DACA recipients and their supporters rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 18, 2020 in Washington, D.C. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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The Biden administration and Democrats on Capitol Hill have vowed repeatedly to secure a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants. But a federal judge in Texas could be the one to force them to take the first step in making it happen.
Advocates, attorneys and lawmakers expect a ruling within days or weeks on a court case that will determine the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which provides protections for more than 640,000 immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.
by V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi
February 8, 2021
Besides the coverage we get during Latinx Heritage Month, these moments in our history are more often than not
not covered in U.S. History classes in schools even though Latin-Americans have been a part of the United States for about 500 years. Some major events includes the migrant farm workers, uniting Latinx voters, and the formation of The League of United Latin American Citizens.
We know of the work of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta but do you know who Willie Vasquez is? Do you know what happened with Mendez v. Westminster? Read on to learn more about these key figures and moments in Latinx history.