Texas will need an additional 40,000 doctors by 2025 to keep up with a growing population, particularly among Hispanics, the San Antonio Express-News reports. About 20,000 of the 37,000 doctors currently practicing in Texas will have retired or left their practices over the next 17 years, READ FULL STORYRead more…
Before a huge crowd in San Diego last summer, Barack Obama vowed to make fixing illegal immigration a top priority as president, and Latinos nationwide responded with massive support for him on Election Day. Now, they are pressing him to keep his promise.
"We voted in large numbers for Obama," said Juan Salgado, board president of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, a nonprofit based in Chicago, Obama's training ground for immigration issues when he was a senator. "If we're
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NLBWA marks its fifth anniversary as one of the leading organizations for the Latina business owner
The National Latina Business Women Association (NLBWA) will host its third annual conference, Helping Build the Latina Business Woman, on Thursday, November 20, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla in San Diego. NLBWA has lined up an impressive list of speakers and educational workshops for this year’s participants. The conference keynote speakers include: California Secretary of State and Consumer
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Health and Human Services (HHS) announced an exciting collaboration with the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the Patient Education Research Center at the Stanford University School of Medicine to increase the number of diabetes self-management training programs (DSMT) in the United States.
This collaboration has a particular focus on Hispanic people with Medicare and supports HHS’ Interagency Hispanic Elder Initiative. That initiative, launched in 2007 by the department’s Administration
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With thousands of jobs needing to be filled, Hispanics are hoping to be well represented in the Obama administration.
Hispanics in swing states like Florida who boosted Barack Obama into the White House are now looking for a place at the table -- and within the Cabinet and federal agencies as well.
As the president-elect's transition team plows through stacks of résumés to fill almost 10,000 federal jobs -- from the high-profile secretary of state to the less glitzy director of the Office of P
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Si se puede. Translation: Yes we can.
It was a common phrase used by Barack Obama and John McCain on the campaign trail this year as they tried to increase their outreach to Latino voters -- an influential voting bloc.
But clearly, based on exit polling, those voters overwhelmingly said 'si se puede' for the Illinois senator. Latinos supported Obama 67 percent to 30 percent for McCain. READ FULL STORYRead more…
In-depth interviews with 28 Latina women living in Brooklyn revealed six factors that enhance or inhibit Latinas' disclosure of information to their physician. Researchers found that a warm, trusting, compassionate relationship in which the patient feels respected and truly heard is critical for disclosure of important health information. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Despite certain risk factors, Hispanic patients were 57% less likely than Caucasians to undergo coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) one year after successful angioplasty to open blocked coronary arteries, a new study found.
It also found that Hispanics were less likely to have any kind of repeat revascularization (artery opening) procedures, more likely to have diabetes (increasing their risk for heart attack), and more likely to have long lesions blocking their arteries -- an average length
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When Elena Rodriguez of Apopka buried her uncle, she felt grief -- and sticker shock.
For the native of Tamaulipas, Mexico, the funeral costs were more than she expected, and much more than they would have been in her homeland.
And rather than the customary three days for a vigil, she had less than a day to memorialize him before his body was sent to its final resting place in Mexico. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Barack Obama's victory in the US presidential election has left many euphoric Democrats with a feeling that the landscape of American politics has shifted - but is it true or is it an illusion?
Democratic strategist, Simon Rosenberg, director of the New Democrat Network, is one of those who argues that the pattern of the last four decades has been broken. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Hidden in the numbers from last week's vote tallies is a major concern for the Republican Party: Hispanics have jumped ship. Four states with significant Hispanic populations--Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada and Florida--swung huge for Obama, reversing course from just four years earlier, when John Kerry effectively battled to a draw in New Mexico and lost the other three states. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Next to the door of one of New York’s favorite stores, Filenes’ basement on 79th and Broadway, there’s a dark dirty figure with a sign that says, “Homeless, please help.”
He is 30-year-old Juan Carlos Gonzalez. He has an inserted bolt in his right ankle ever since he was in a car accident when he was just 15 years old.
Originally from Manta, Ecuador, he came to New York four years ago, after obtaining a work permit to work for an air conditioning company here.
“I came from a small town where
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Wanda Ramos-Morales not only voted for Barack Obama, she volunteered to make phone calls, knock on doors and take people to the polls.
It was the first time the Puerto Rican mom from east Orange, who had voted for Ronald Reagan, made that kind of commitment to any candidate.
Obama got Ramos-Morales' support because he talked about her issues.
"The food is going up, the rent is going up, gas is high, but your wages are stagnant, and you have people stuck on some part-time job where you can get
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The record turnout of black and Hispanic voters played a key role in the victory of President-elect Barack Obama, but in California that same racial and ethnic factor also was instrumental in the passage of Proposition 8, a ballot measure that declares marriage as the union of a man and a woman. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Weeks before Barack Obama won the presidency, he met privately in Washington with his former Democratic rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, and Latino political leaders who had fervently backed her bid.
The cards were laid upon the table, according to one of the participants. The Hispanic leaders said they expected at least two Latinos to be named to an Obama Cabinet — meeting the standard set by President-elect Bill Clinton in 1992 — but preferred three. Of course, they also wante
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It's a done deal: Proposition 8, making same-sex marriage illegal in California, has been approved by voters.
The constitution of the state was amended to take away rights recognized by the California Supreme Court under the equal protection clause of the California constitution just this May. And Latinos were in the vanguard, providing critical support for the passage of Prop 8. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Posted by Angel Garcia on November 6, 2008 at 1:04pm
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Top-Hispanic-Republican-Wins-Gubernatorial/story.aspx?guid=%7B2E529F17-BF50-4EBC-A6C4-293412C85278%7DLast update: 7:32 p.m. EST Nov. 4, 2008SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Nov 04, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Early Results Show Luis G. Fortuno Garners Historic LandslideSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico voted today, in what early results show to be record numbers, to elect fiscal and social conservative Luis G
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California's black and Latino voters, who turned out in droves for Barack Obama, provided key support for a state ban on same-sex marriage. Christian, married and older voters also helped give the measure the winning edge, according to exit polls for The Associated Press.
Proposition 8 overturns a May California Supreme Court decision legalizing gay nuptials and rewrites the state constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Exit poll data showed seven in 10 black vote
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Some people have misconceptions of Latinos' level of civic commitment, according to a new Brown report.
A team of researchers, including some Brown faculty members, recently released a report that presents counter-arguments to commonly held myths about the opinions and attitudes of the Latino community.
Under the leadership of Evelyn Hu-Dehart, director of Brown's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, the project, entitled "Myths vs. Reality: Results From the New England Latin
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Barack Obama drew on support from Hispanics, young voters and women to score victories in New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado — three Western states that voted for President Bush in 2004.
Obama also contributed to an Election Day sweep in New Mexico that put the state's entire congressional delegation in Democratic hands for the first time in 40 years. READ FULL STORYRead more…
