California Latino voters say economy is top priority, but blame falls on corporate greed

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News September 10, 2024September 9, 2024

Information is posted in both English and Spanish at a polling site at Hoover Elementary School in Stockton on Election Day on Nov. 8, 2022. Latino voters are one of the fastest growing segments of the electorate, accounting for nearly 15% of voters nationwide. Nearly three quarters of those in a recently conducted California survey say they intend to vote this November. (Harika Maddala/Bay City News/Catchlight Local)

Housing costs and inflation are the top concerns for California’s 9 million Latino registered voters, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Latino Community Foundation, a national nonprofit dedicated to Latino voter engagement. Although some blame political candidates for high costs, most blame corporate greed.

A quarter of all Latino eligible voters in the nation reside in California. Of the 902 California Latinos surveyed, 57% said the most important political issues are cost of living and inflation.

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Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.

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