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NYC's Latino Population Becomes More Diverse, Dispersed

Posted by HispanicPro on October 3, 2011 at 11:39am

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Luis Reyes has been a keen observer of the Latino community over the last five decades. At the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, he has conducted considerable research, but he has never witnessed anything like what he sees now.

"The Latino population has dispersed throughout the city," says Reyes.

Even though the number of Hispanics fell for the first time in Manhattan, the 2010 U.S. Census shows there are 2.3 million Latinos in the city, surging 8.1 percent from 10 years ago.

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Meet the New Elite, Not Like the Old

Posted by News on July 26, 2009 at 12:42pm

They are the children of 1969 — the year that America’s most prestigious universities began aggressively recruiting blacks and Latinos to their nearly all-white campuses. No longer would Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia be the domain of the privileged. Instead, in response to the national soul-searching prompted by the civil rights movement, America’s premier colleges would try to become more representative of the population as a whole. READ FULL STORY
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Latinos tackle Alzheimer’s

Posted by News on August 17, 2009 at 10:07pm

When Eugenio Ramirez heads out to the Latino Geriatric Center each morning, he says he's going to the capital, San Juan, for the day. In the afternoon he says he's going home to Vega Alta, the small coastal village where he grew up. Eugenio Ramirez Jr., the son he lives with in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood, can't tell whether his father really thinks that he's still in Puerto Rico, the same way he can't tell whether he really thinks that he's 42 years old, or that Junior isn't his son, b
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Nike mentors give Latino youth a career boost

Posted by News on August 16, 2009 at 10:48pm

Seven Latino students at Portland Community College’s Rock Creek campus are getting a jolt of business savvy from Nike workers, one meeting and piece of advice at a time. As part of a mentoring program that partners the Nike Latino and Friends Network with students from the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP), each of the students – all first-generation college scholars from migrant-worker backgrounds – work with a Nike employee at honing crucial job skills and creating networking opport
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Hispanic males are now majority in county jails

Posted by News on July 7, 2009 at 3:30pm

There's a shift under way in the Maricopa County jails. The population of White male inmates, after growing steadily for more than a decade, has dropped in the past five years, while the population of Hispanic male inmates has increased to the point that they make up the ethnic majority, according Sheriff's Office data. Experts say the explanation for the increase is largely due to overall population trends coupled with a series of recent laws and policy decisions targeting illegal immigrants
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Hispanic, black communities continue to be hit harder by recession

Posted by News on July 7, 2009 at 3:00pm
The economic recession is impacting African-American and Hispanic workers at a disproportionate rate, according to two of the nation’s oldest advocacy organizations for racial equality and economic empowerment. Still, there are signs that the stimulus plan may be working. Officials with the National Council of La Raza and the NAACP say rising unemployment rates in minority communities may be finally bottoming out. READ FULL STORY
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David Arquette Apologizes for Saying Latinas Are "Just Nuts"

Posted by News on July 21, 2009 at 11:04am

David Arquette issued an apology for the racist remarks he spouted on Fox and Friends last week. In case you missed it, the "actor" first claimed that he was an expert on Latinos because he was born and raised in Los Angeles, and then said that while some Latina women have good judgment, others are "just nuts" in reference to Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court Nomination. READ FULL STORY
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Who most embraces 'American dream'? Hispanics.

Posted by HispanicPro on August 24, 2011 at 12:38pm

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Two-thirds of Hispanic business owners said they started their firms to better their lives, provide for their families, according to new survey.

Hispanic Americans believe business ownership is the key to harnessing the much- sought-after "American Dream."

More than any other segment of the population, Hispanic Americans view entrepreneurship as a way to pursue the American Dream, take control of their lives and support their families.

That's the finding of new research that reveals about two-t

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Immigrant Homeownership Proves Resilient in the Face of Slowdown

Posted by News on May 15, 2009 at 1:27am

The rate of homeownership in the United States is holding up better among immigrants than it is for native-born Americans, according to a study released yesterday. The study, by the Pew Hispanic Center in Washington, analyzes housing, economic and demographic data from government agencies and private sources. It found that although immigrants are far less likely than their native-born counterparts to own a home, the rate of homeownership for immigrants during the housing bust has declined at a
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Unemployment numbers far worse for blacks

Posted by News on March 8, 2009 at 3:49pm
February's higher-than-anticipated U.S. jobless rate of 8.1 percent shook America on Friday morning. It was a stat not seen since December 1983 -- except in black America, which has had rates above 8.1 percent for all but six months since 2001. The unemployment rate for blacks in the United States hit 13.4 percent in February, the U.S. Department of Labor reported Friday. READ FULL STORY
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Commentary: Increase in Latino federal prison population reveals flaws in immigration policy

Posted by News on March 8, 2009 at 3:32pm
Our immigration laws are out of whack. And they are clogging our federal prisons with nonviolent folks who are guilty of nothing more than living, working and raising families here without proper documentation. A Pew Hispanic Center study released in mid-February documents how Latinos now make up 40 percent of the estimated 200,000 prisoners in federal penitentiaries, triple their share of the total U.S. adult population and disproportionate to their representation in state and local jails (19
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Are Valley Latinos falling behind in visibility?

Posted by News on May 12, 2009 at 8:03am

Someone once said, ''The more things change, the more they stay the same.'' With that in mind, I note that the Latino community, particularly in Allentown, has been the source of discussion, concern, information and misperceptions for many years. However, a statistical review reveals a community with sharp contrasts and vivid remnants of the recent past. Allentown's Latino population makes up more than 30 percent of the city's nearly 106,000 residents with projections as high as 50 percent by
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Reverse discrimination case could transform hiring

Posted by News on April 21, 2009 at 9:31pm
Inside a burning building, fire doesn't discriminate between Matthew Marcarelli and Gary Tinney. Inside the New Haven Fire Department, however, skin color has put them on opposite sides of a lawsuit that could transform hiring procedures nationwide. This week, the Supreme Court will consider the reverse discrimination claim of Marcarelli and a group of white firefighters. They all passed a promotion exam, but the city threw out the test because no blacks would have been promoted, saying the exa
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Garcia backs out of serving as rodeo parade grand marshal

Posted by News on February 28, 2009 at 12:25pm
When the Houston rodeo holds its annual parade this morning, there will be one grand marshal — Harris County Judge Ed Emmett. But there were supposed to be two. Sheriff Adrian Garcia said he accepted the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo’s invitation to serve as co-grand marshal but backed out after learning that some minority leaders were planning to assail the rodeo’s treatment of Hispanics and African-Americans. READ FULL STORY
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In down times, Hispanic market is booming

Posted by News on March 4, 2009 at 4:20pm

Nation’s largest minority commands attention of businesses, institutions With more than 46 million people, Nuevo Hispania is the 27th-largest nation on Earth and the fourth largest in the Western Hemisphere. Its residents wield $1 trillion of buying power in the marketplace. Even as the rest of the economy contracts in the global recession, Nuevo Hispania remains a thriving, even booming, market that’s expected to grow by 48 percent in the next four years. And it’s not even a real country. T
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Latinos Fuel Chattanooga Population Growth

Posted by News on February 27, 2009 at 12:35am
A new report by the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies has found that Chattanooga's growing population has been fueled by a rising number of Latinos, young children and adults between the ages of 45 and 64 years old. The report, Demographic Change in the Chattanooga Region, is based on information from the Census Bureau, the U.S. Postal Service, building permits, school enrollment data and other information collected and analyzed by the Ochs Center as part of the 2008 State of Chattanooga Reg
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Increase in Latino federal prison population reveals flaws in immigration policy

Posted by News on February 27, 2009 at 12:32am
Our immigration laws are out of whack. And they are clogging our federal prisons with nonviolent folks who are guilty of nothing more than living, working and raising families here without proper documentation. A Pew Hispanic Center study released in mid-February documents how Latinos now make up 40 percent of the estimated 200,000 prisoners in federal penitentiaries, triple their share of the total U.S. adult population and disproportionate to their representation in state and local jails (19
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Many County Latino Teens In Crisis, Say Leaders, Survey

Posted by News on May 12, 2009 at 7:50am
When Adolfo Avalos looks back at his teen years in Gaithersburg, he can see how much went wrong. There were physical fights, school problems, gang involvement, anger at himself and the world: so much trouble that he finally dropped out. "I got kind of like in a box, and I didn't know how to get out of it," said Avalos, 21. His experiences reflect what community leaders describe as a crisis for many Latino teenagers in Montgomery County. High school graduation rates for Latino youths in Montgo
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Black professionals feel left out in Fort Myers

Posted by News on February 24, 2009 at 12:33pm
In the five years she has lived in Fort Myers, attorney Kristyn Whitlow has seen myriad black professionals come and go. Advertisement. Whitlow said black professionals typically leave Fort Myers two or three years after relocating here. "They look around, and they don't see any other black professionals and they leave," Whitlow said. "It's not uncomfortable for me because I'm used to being the only black, but I know it bothers other black professionals." Many local black professionals claim
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Gangster stereotyping endangers Latinos

Posted by News on March 4, 2009 at 4:04pm
Due to the sensationalism and media attention to "gangs" that has added to the community's fear and stereotypes toward Latino males, it appears that Latinos are being painted with the same criminal brush. Based on prior comments made by Sheriff Mike Kanalakis and Salinas Police Chief Daniel Ortega to the media, there are approximately 3,000 gang members in Monterey County. If the 3,000 figure is correct, and based on census data, this would equate to about 3 percent of the Latino male populatio
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