30 Million Latinas Need Representation In Biden s Cabinet | Opinion Ana Flores On 12/29/20 at 2:56 PM EST
As a busy single mom and a small business owner, when Mayor Garcetti s administration asked me to co-chair Los Angeles Racial Equity and Newly Empowered Workplaces (RENEW) Task Force, a broad coalition committed to rooting out structural racism in businesses in Los Angeles, my answer was not an easy yes. But in a city that s nearly 48 percent Latinx, knowing that I would ensure Latina business owners were represented at the table was important. In California, Latina-owned businesses skyrocketed 111 percent in the 10 years following the Great Recession, including my own, and the numbers nationally are just as impressive. But the numbers are also tragic, when measured by the wage gap and most recently, the prognosis for the increased racial wealth gap that the current economic crisis is likely to trigger (if the great recession is any indication).