Latinos & Economic Security

Latinos & Economic Security (LES) is a national research project funded by the Ford Foundation and designed to inform the U.S. public and the Latino community about economic policy and how public policy in the areas of social security, retirement, pensions, healthcare and education and other related areas will affect them.

The overall goal of this project is to give the Latino community the tools to understand and determine for themselves how Social Security, research and financial planning impacts their retirement and aging options. LES aims to provide the factual knowledge base to allow them to participate in the ongoing policy debates.

The lead Institute for the LES project is the UCLA Center for Policy Research on Aging and is a collaborative effort of the USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center, and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, in partnership with the National Hispanic Council on Aging (NHCOA), the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO), and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR).

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Kathleen Wilber USC Gerontology

Kathleen Wilber is the University of Southern California Mary Pickford Foundation Professor of Gerontology and holds a joint appointment in Health Services Administration in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development.