Education
Reduces funding for schools, eliminates preschool programs, and cancels student debt repayment programs.
Project 2025, created by the Heritage Foundation and former Trump officials, threatens our democracy, rights, and freedoms. This extreme plan poses serious risks to the Hispanic community, affecting education, healthcare, and immigration, with significant consequences for states with large Latino populations.
A wide range of significant and profound consequences that deeply affect the Latino community.
Reduces funding for schools, eliminates crucial preschool programs, and cancels student debt repayment initiatives, severely limiting access to quality education for Latino children. These cuts undermine the foundation of learning and development, leading to long-term disadvantages for students.
Cuts to overtime pay and threats to food security place Latino families in increasingly precarious situations, making it harder to cover basic needs like housing, groceries, and utilities. These changes intensify the struggle to maintain a stable and healthy life.
Prescription medication costs for older Latinos are set to rise, placing an added burden on those already struggling with healthcare expenses. This, combined with reduced access to Medicaid, threatens their ability to afford necessary treatments and maintain their health.
Latinas face increased barriers to accessing reproductive healthcare, which could lead to worsening health outcomes and a loss of autonomy over personal health decisions. This restriction on healthcare access puts their well-being at significant risk.
The promotion of mass deportations not only destabilizes mixed-status families, including U.S. citizens but also creates a climate of fear and uncertainty in Latino communities. This policy threatens to tear families apart and disrupt the social fabric of entire neighborhoods.
By removing environmental protections and delaying crucial climate action, these policies endanger the well-being of future generations. The lack of action on climate change disproportionately affects vulnerable communities, including Latinos, who are often on the frontlines of environmental hazards.
The removal of federal tools used to enforce civil rights protections increases the risk of racial discrimination and social injustice. This rollback of protections threatens to undo decades of progress toward equality and fair treatment under the law.