{"id":5058538,"date":"2022-05-27T11:22:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malatinonews.com\/?p=5058538"},"modified":"2022-05-27T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:22:03","slug":"advocating-for-systemic-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/maln\/2022\/05\/27\/advocating-for-systemic-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocating For Systemic Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Massachusetts is home to more than 30,000 Hispanic-Latino businesses, 3,800 of which are employer firms that generate over $4.2 billion dollars in annual revenue and create more than 27,000 jobs, that\u2019s according to Betty Francisco, co-founder of Amplify Latinx<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state is also home to 9 percent of Hispanic-Latino eligible voters, according to the Pew Research Center. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, while those numbers are impressive, systemic barriers are keeping the community from realizing equitable wealth and political power. Amplify Latinx works to “significantly increase Latinx civic engagement, economic opportunity and leadership representation across sectors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Massachusetts is among the wealthiest states in the country, yet the Latino communities have struggled economically,” said Rosario Ubiera-Minaya, Executive Director of Amplify Latinx. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubiera-Minaya was this month’s guest on the\u00a0Latino News Network\u00a0<\/a>podcast,\u00a0\u201c3 Questions With\u2026\u201d<\/a>. “Latinos have a higher entrepreneurship, education, and labor force participation rates than in years past,” she said. “But it is still a disproportionate share (in the state).” Ubiera-Minaya referenced \u00a1Avancemos Ya!<\/em><\/a>, an analysis by Boston Indicators, UMass, and the Latino Equity Fund that illustrates “the unique challenges facing our state\u2019s Latino communities and concludes with a brief discussion of opportunities for greater prosperity and well-being.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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