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After Jersey Garcia welcomed her first baby earlier this year in a planned pregnancy, she was shocked to learn that, despite having health insurance through her employer, she couldn't afford to resume her birth control. The IUD had been her reliable form of birth control for years, but she was told she must pay $800 in fees beyond what her health
insurance covers. Switching to the birth control pill was also not affordable; the pill will cost her up to $480 per year in insurance co-payments.
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The number of black residents dropped as many left for other Louisiana cities, Texas and beyond.Officially, the percentage of Hispanics jumped from
Daily life for Marlen Lopez sounds anything but easy: The undocumented worker cleans offices to pay her bills and hasn't seen her 8-year-old son since she left El Salvador three years ago. Yet Lopez is happy with her job, hopeful about the future and confident her son will one day graduate from college in the United States. For the 33-year-old Lopez, as for many other Hispanic immigrants, optimism about life in the U.S. appears to be partly a product of what she sees in the rearview mirror.
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As he turned to the cameras, something he likes to do, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich told Spanish-lanuage reporters, "No culpable."That means not guilty. But he was found guilty of one count of lying to the FBI and could face a $250,000 fine and up to five years in jail.Only one juror stood in the way of him being convicted of trying to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat, and I think he should face a retrial.
But I'd like to weigh in on what Blagojevich's conviction means to many in the Lati
On the walls of his office on the second floor of the Los Angeles Center Studios, veteran filmmaker and Latino activist Moctesuma Esparza displays posters from some of the dozens of movies and TV series he has produced in his career. There are banners from the 1988 film "The Milagro Beanfield War"; "Selena," the story of the slain Tejano singer; and the HBO film "Walkout," about the 1968 Chicano student walkouts in East Los Angeles to protest school conditions and prejudice. The last one is a p
That area, which includes the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, features six of the top 10 California metro areas for foreclosure concentrations, according to the Center for Responsible Lending, which released a comprehensive report Tuesday.
No California communities have e
The poll of 1,500 Latino adults also found significant divisions on social issues such as same-sex unions and abortion, along lines of age, language and whethe
“The number one issue in the Hispanic community in America is economic empowerment,“ Rubio, who is of Cuban descent, said. “I believe a growing num
The poll says about 4 in 10 Latinos who spoke mostly English spent time each day — typically several hours — checking out Spanish media.About 35 percent of mainly English-speaking Latinos also say English media portray Hispanics mostly in a negative way. That is nearly three
The Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, a wing of the conservative not-for-profit American Principles Project, is poised to unveil a million-dollar independent expenditure plan to boost Fiorina.
Alfonse Aguilar, who heads the group, says it has already raised more th
In a recent study by the NAACP it was shown that 79% of Latinos carry credit card debt while 54% of White households carry credit card debt. It is also the case that Latinos carry a much higher interest rate on the credit cards the possess. Since exiting the “Great Recession” Americans have seen the number of bankruptcies increase.
No matter what our background it seems to be the case that many American citizens are relying on credit cards much more.
Data shows that over $90 billion has been cu
They place a hi
There are a disproportionate number of Latinas who experience the more severe cases of breast cancer, according to a news release from The University of New Mexico's Cancer Center. The center recently was awarded funding from the National Institutes of Health Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities program to study why this is and perhaps determine successful prevention and treatment methods."I think it's terrific," said Dr. Linda Cook, who is a researcher at the center.
"It's an i
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Bill Brady, Republican Candidate for Governor, spent the day meeting with leaders in Chicago’s Latino community today to talk about the issues that matter most to Illinois’ Hispanic residents.Brady began the day Tuesday at El Valor, a non‐Profit organization with an emphasis on educating children with special needs and providing vocational and leadership training for adults. Brady spoke with El Valor’s leadership team, board members and students at th
"Our Hispanic community has grown significantly,"said Fayetteville, Ark., Chamber of Commerce President Steve Clark. "That diversity is very good for us. We have a Spanish language radio station now, which is something we
