Record Latino applications for University of California system a step in right direction, say experts
“For Latinos, who account for almost half (47.8 percent) of all confirmed Covid-19 cases in California and 44.1 percent of all confirmed deaths, the pandemic has added economic, health and family stressors outside the classroom, Bedolla said.
‘If you are already sort of economically precarious and add the pandemic on top of it, a model of a residential four-year university experience is much harder to do if you are needed in order to support your family,’ she said.”