Equal Pay Day tomorrow highlights the fact that women, particularly Latinas, still earn significantly less than men despite working just as hard and often harder. Additionally, Latinas’ earnings continue to lag behind those of their white, African American, and Asian counterparts. Latinas overall earn less, on average, than men and other women, which means that they must work longer for the same amount of pay. This puts Latinas at greater risk of economic insecurity for themselves and their fami
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A new cable network for Latino audiences will mark the culmination of two decades of filmmaking for writer-director Robert Rodriguez, who is leading the ambitious effort.
"I've been on this journey for 20 years now ... and this seems to be the reason," " Rodriguez said Friday during a conference of independent Latino filmmakers and documentarians.
"What's great about this is that no one is doing this for an audience that is growing so fast," Rodriguez said, referring to how Latinos are now the n
Florida makes the grade in a report recently released by one of Florida College Access Network’s national partners. Excelencia in Education’s “Finding Your Workforce” provides an analysis of the top 25 institutions graduating Hispanics nationally. The project’s goal is to help employers recruit recent Latino degree recipients in key sectors.
In the opening report of the “Finding Your Workforce” series, several Florida institutions come out on top of their national peers in the total number of de
It's been redone nearly 400 times over the last 17 years, but one thing has stayed the same about ESPN’s “This is SportsCenter” advertisement: It’s always been in English.
That will change on Wednesday when ESPN introduces the first Spanish television ad for the network’s signature news program.
The ad follows the Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano as he makes his way around ESPN’s Bristol, Conn., headquarters giving high-fives and elaborate handshakes to staff members while unknowingly spread
As Mitt Romney steadily ties up the GOP nomination, he’s begun to etch-a-sketch his campaign toward winning “the Hispanic vote.” As America’s largest minority, Hispanics are seen as critical to victory in the presidential race.
Only there’s an awkward problem for Mr. Romney. And it’s not just a Hispanic tendency to vote Democratic. A new survey shows only a quarter of Hispanics actually see themselves as Hispanic.
In fact, of the Hispanics born in the United States, about half say they view them
The president of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce said Friday that he is proud to advocate on behalf of business owners who happen to be of Hispanic decent. But he reminded a Pasco audience they must never forget that first and foremost they are American businesses.
"Every tax bill we pay, every person we employ and every product we manufacture ... goes to support this American economy," Javier Palomarez said.
Palomarez was the featured speaker at the annual Tri-Cities Hispanic Cha
Is the new face of American Catholicism a Hispanic one?
In Fall River, the overall population may be dropping. But census figures show the Hispanic population rising from 4.3 percent of total population in 1995 to 7.4 percent in 2010.
The new Fall Riverites who speak Spanish are mostly Puerto Ricans, but El Salvador, Guatemala and Ecuador are also represented.
“We’re also seeing a lot of Brazilians, particularly on Cape Cod, where many of them do seasonal work,” said Doug Rodrigues, director of
When forms for financial aid or the recent U.S. Census come around, checking off the "Hispanic" box gives the majority of Latinos pause, according to a report released last week.
It's a feeling Veronica Culbertson can relate to.
As head of the Southwest Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, she sees some aspects of a common culture — hugging and kissing during greetings, strong personalities and close relationships "make us who we are," said Culbertson, an El Salvador native.
But the majority of
Growing up in the suburbs of Detroit, Helen Iris Torres responded to questions about her identity by telling people she was Puerto Rican. It didn't matter that schoolbooks referred to her as Hispanic.
Now, as head of an organization that supports women of Latin American heritage, Torres still says she's a "proud Puerto Rican" but prefers the term Latina, which she says encompasses the larger community of Spanish speakers in the country.
Torres' quandary is reflected in a new report by the Pew Hi
It is an ongoing debate: should birth control pills be covered by insurance or not?
Some women are resorting to desperate measures just to get birth control despite the health risks, according to a recent study.
With the current state of healthcare, a new study by the American Journal of Public Health said more Latinas are crossing the border for birth control.
In Mexico, birth control is cheaper and more easily accessible since it is sold over-the-counter.
The study also said that undocumented
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Chicago, IL April 1, 2012 – The Board of Directors of Gads Hill Center announced today the appointment of Maricela García as its new Chief Executive Officer. Ms. García is the first Latina in the agency’s history to hold this position and succeeds Barbara Castellan who led this 114-year old non-profit organization for the past 19 years.
Ms.
Immigration is one of the issues that will be put on the backburner as U.S. President Barack Obama focuses on the campaign trail in the hopes of winning his second term in office.
Obama has been blunt about election-year constraints. At a March 6 news conference, he acknowledged Hispanic supporters' anger over his failure to achieve immigration changes, including paths to legal status for some undocumented immigrants.
"When I came into office, I said, 'I am going to push to get this done,'" Obam
The self-described American patriot leaps into the ring amid blaring music and loud boos from an overwhelmingly Latino audience, who hold aloft signs in Spanish supporting his masked Mexican opponents.
"My name is RJ Brewer and I'm from Phoenix, Arizona," the wrestler proclaims, in a video of a recent match provided by the promoter. Taunts inside the arena get louder.
The wrestler proceeds to rail against Mexican beer and to demand that people speak English. Then he points to the message painted
Businesses take notice; Hispanics are taking their growing $1 trillion buying power online.
According to Boostability, an online marketing company based in American Fork, Utah, there are more than 30 million Hispanics actively online, and businesses across the country are now catering to this growing online segment. The Internet has rapidly become an integral part of daily life. Hispanics are using the Internet to shop for large retail items, find local businesses and to look up entertainment in
Although affordability and funding is often prescribed as key to getting Latinos through college, a panel of Latino students said Friday there's another challenge — and it's cultural.
Promoting the idea that higher education is worth the investment means changing the mentality in their homes and neighborhoods, they said.
“Traditional Hispanic culture still dictates that you stay at home until you get married or get a job,” Mitzi Torres, a senior at Burbank High School, told the audience at a Co
As a Republican primary race increasingly defined by demographics and math drags into April, a daunting demographic mountain looms on the horizon for Mitt Romney if he becomes the GOP presidential nominee: winning over Latino voters who could prove to be pivotal in November.
For Republicans, the math is simple -- and harsh. There are 38.7 million Latinos in the United States, making them the country's largest minority group, according to the most recent Census data. And a recent poll shows if th
The statistics are remarkable and defy stereotypical notions about who Latinas are and the role we play in current U.S. society. Regardless of outdated and distorted perceptions about us as a group, the facts are incontrovertible.
For example:
788,000 Latinas now run their own businesses, according to the most recent Survey of Business Owners (last conducted in 2007). This represents a 46% increase against a 20% found across all female business owners over a five-year period. Their national backgr
In a historic partnership between two visionary travel industry organizations, the NTA-ASTA Hispanic Business Development Task Force met for the first time in conjunction with Tianguis Turistico Mexico and developed a strategic plan to capture the undertapped US Hispanic travel market.
“Because tourism creates jobs and the Hispanic market represents 16 percent of the US population, there is an unprecedented opportunity for growth,” said Olga Ramudo, a member of both NTA and ASTA. “We want to ens
Lance Winslow in preparation for a book he is writing stated that the number one reasons for Home Schooling was violence in schools. He stated this fact in an ezine article on http://ezinearticles.com/?Violence-in-Schools;-Number-One-Reason-for-Home-Schooling&id=457852
I'm not sure where he got his facts, so I can't vouch for the validity of this claim, however I do know at least two families in my own circle who pulled their kids out for this very reason. Parents vehemently complained to the sch
10 Reasons to Homeschool
Excerpted from the National Home Education Network's posting (55 Reasons to Homeschool)
http://www.waldsfe.org/Humor/55reasons.htm
1. …Allow children time to learn subjects not usually taught in their school.
2. …Allow children to have time for more in-depth study than what is allowed in school.
3. …Allow children to learn at their own pace, not too slow or too fast. (You don;t have to be concerned about teaching to the average)
4. …Allow children to work at a level that is a
