Although there are more than 1 million Latinos in North Carolina, the state only has six Latino elected officials. One solution? Improving the communication gap. (via WFAE)
report from 2020 found that only 20% of the country’s 900 most powerful people identify as a person of color despite these groups representing 40% of the population.Executive Director of the Latin American Coalition, Jose Hernandez-Paris.“We used to be thought of as a new community, a community that is newly arrived and I think we have overcome or surpassed that,” he said.
Gill, from UNC, agrees with Hernandez-Paris about the need for government support. She says one way to achieve this is improving Latino representation in government.Hannah Gill, associate director of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Institute for the Study of the Americas Although there are more than 1 million Latinos in North Carolina, the state only has six Latino elected officials, based on afrom the NALEO Educational Fund. Nationally, the U.S. has 60 million Latinos and only around 7,000 are elected officials.
As a government employee in Charlotte, Rios agrees. He says regardless of how many resources a city has available, if community members don’t know about how to take advantage of them, they’re obsolete.
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