Author: Lidia Hernández Tapia

Lidia Hernández Tapia (she/her)

  • Language Justice and NYC Workers Rights: A roundtable

    NYC agencies & indigenous communities working towards inclusion and representation Thursday, January 30, 6:30pm Segal Theater, The Graduate Center, CUNY

  • Latino Population in NYC Metro Area

    Since 1960, the NYC Latino population has been moving in larger numbers to nearby counties in the metropolitan area (Figure 1). These patterns differ among Latino national-origin groups and as new immigrants arrive to the city. This unparalleled in-depth LDP report provides a statistical and mapping overview of the New York City metro area since…

  • New LDP Report: Healthcare coverage

    The first LDP release of 2020 analyzes the trends in healthcare coverage in the New York Metropolitan Area and the United States between 2009 and 2015. The main result? There has been a decrease in the uninsured population in both areas of study, including among those living above and below the poverty threshold. The trends…

  • A New Long Island?

    The second release for this Spring of the Urban Series is on Long Island. As some of the most traditional New York City suburbs, the Nassau and Suffolk counties have had important changes in the past thirty years. The report is called “A New Long Island: Demographic, Economic and Social Transformations in New York City’s…

  • La cobertura de salud aumenta para los latinos, pero no lo suficiente

    Según un nuevo informe publicado por el Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos, del Caribe y Latinos del Graduate Center, CUNY, en términos generales, la tasa de personas sin seguro médico disminuyó entre 2009 y 2015.  Lo más significativo “es que el Affordable Care Act [ACA, por sus siglas en inglés] elevó el porcentaje de estadounidenses con…