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Latino elites are paying the California dream forward

  • Written by Jody Agius Vallejo, Associate Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration at USC, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageA small – but powerful – Latino middle class has emerged in California, led by elites like State Senator Kevin de Leon.AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

American Latino economic elites have incomes and wealth in the top five percent of earners. Some own multi-million-dollar companies or work as corporate executives. Latino politicians –...

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