Voting stations are arranged at the Weld County Elections office in Greeley on June 25, 2024. (Andrew Fraieli/Colorado Newsline)
Latino voters in Colorado say their top issues heading into the election this November are the rising cost of living, low wages and high prices of housing and health care, according to an annual statewide survey released Wednesday.
“You see salient issues related to not only the economy overall, but at the individual level related to pocketbook issues and how individuals and families are doing as it relates to their own economic standing,” Gabriel Sanchez from BSP Research told reporters Wednesday.
Inflation and the high cost of living were also the top concerns for Latino voters for the last three years of the survey.
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The survey included 1,600 Latino registered voters from across Colorado, with oversampling from the 8th Congressional District. The district, which includes the northern Denver suburbs and extends into Greeley, has the largest Latino population in the state. The survey was conducted from July 5 to Aug. 5 — before the Democratic nominee for president switched from President Joe Biden to Vice President Kamala Harris — and has a margin of error of 2.4 percentage points. It informs the Colorado Latino Policy Agenda , which is led by Voces Unidas and the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights, or COLOR.