Latino workers in California and Texas allegedly punished for speaking Spanish in their workplaces will be granted up to $450,000, free English classes and other relief under a consent decree approved this week in a class-action lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Los Angeles.
The lawsuit alleged that Skilled Healthcare Group Inc. and affiliated firms, based in Orange County with facilities in six Western and Southern states, enforced an English-only rule agains
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Little pre-K access for LatinosKids behind at start of school, advocates sayBy Margaret Ramirez | Tribune reporterApril 15, 2009Bryant Cruz, 4, pauses as he tries to spell his name in Janeth Medellin's class at Casa Infantil Head Start. The class is bilingual, which providers say is key to greater access for Latino families. (Tribune photo by Jose M. Osorio / March 25, 2009)Inside Casa Infantil Head Start in Logan Square, teacher Janeth Medellin called on her students to form a circle and then s
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Learn. Lead. Create CommunityAs many of you know during the past few months our Director of Child Care, Celena Roldan has been out talking to the media about our Nationally Accredited Preschool program. Last month, she recorded an interview on Comcast Newsmakers a local news program which airs on the national cable channel CNN Headline News (also now known as HLN).Newsmakers segments run all day every day at the end of national programs. Celena’s segment on Erie will begin running today. If you
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The Sonoma County Grand Jury is embarking on a recruitment campaign to draw more Latinos and younger people to the jury.
"Basically, grand jurors are older, gray-haired people who are white, and they really do not reflect accurately the population of Sonoma County," said current jury foreman Richard Klein of Santa Rosa. "There are significant issues in Sonoma County that have to do with Hispanics and Latinos and things that have interest to younger people, and we just don't have those (jurors).
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The University approved a new Program in Latino Studies at a faculty meeting on Monday, more than 10 years after the idea was conceived. The certificate program will be launched in the 2009-10 academic year.
“Latinos offer us a way to understand social change ... and rethink the contours of race,” said sociology and Wilson School professor Marta Tienda, who will direct the program. Tienda noted that “Latinos predate formation of the American nation” and represent an increasing segment of the Am
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Hispanics made up nearly half of the more than 1 million people who became U.S. citizens last year, according to a Hispanic advocacy group.
The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials said the number of Latinos who became Americans in fiscal year 2008 more than doubled over the previous year, to 461,317. That's nearly half of the record 1,046,539 new citizens overall in 2008, a 58 percent increase from 2007.
"Latinos who naturalize are eager to demonstrate their commitme
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March 31, 2009(AP) — An index of Chicago-area home prices fell more than 16 percent in January from a year earlier, hitting their lowest level since May 2003, according to data released Tuesday.But the Chicago market is still holding up better than most large metropolitan areas, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index. Home prices in 20 major cities tumbled by a record 19 percent from January 2008, the largest decline since the index started in 2000. The 10-city index dropped 19.4
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The future of Texas is sitting in room 318 at Austin High School, and right now, it could go either way.
Students in the after-school program — Hispanic and from low-income families, the group least likely to enroll in college — are optimistic.
But who knows?
“I hope to go,” says Neri Gamez, 17, a high school junior who dreams of being a doctor.
Gamez has an advantage: She is in a program run by the Center for Mexican-American Studies at the University of Houston, designed to help Hispanic
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The Los Angeles Times is one of the most widely read and respected publications in the west coast, serving the second largest city in the nation, and the largest Latino population. In a recent article, the Times focused on inappropriate expenditures and claims made by two prominent Latinas serving the Schwarzenegger administration. The attention and public heat that article created resulted in both Latinas resigning their posts and perhaps ruining their careers.
In years past, The Times has pub
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William Lewis started playing golf with nothing but a 9-iron and he never stopped swinging, even when his favorite sport doled out a racist hazing.
Now a graying golfer, he spreads that same passion to dozens of kids from a predominantly black neighborhood in Martin Luther King Jr.'s hometown.
Somewhere in the nearly 50-year span of his career, he thought it would get easier. But there's just that one role model.
Tiger Woods.
"It really is surprising," said Lewis, who teaches the sport to in
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Hopkins researchers find that few new moms seek help for symptoms
Mothers who deliver two or more babies are more likely to have developed moderate to severe depression within nine months of giving birth than mothers who have a single baby, say U.S. researchers who analyzed data from a nationally representative survey of children born in 2001.
"Our findings suggest that 19 percent of mothers of multiples had moderate to severe depressive symptoms nine months after delivery, compared to 16 perc
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The National Hispanic Corporate Council announces its spring member meeting April 7-9, 2009. The conference will include a CEO Forum on Diversity to be held on April 7, at Sprint Nextel Corporate Headquarters, Overland Park, Kansas. The member meeting, April 8-9, 2009, will convene in Kansas City, Missouri, at the corporate headquarters of Hallmark Cards, Inc. The Forum and Member Meeting are co-sponsored by Hallmark Cards, Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corporation.
CEO Forum: Capturing the Competitiv
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With their prospects in Congress sinking along with the economy, liberal advocates of giving undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship are launching a risky strategy to push lawmakers and the White House to take up their cause.
They propose that Congress legalize millions of undocumented workers now, in exchange for reducing the number of temporary foreign workers allowed to enter the country in the future.
Their calculation could win a new and powerful ally - organized labor - but risks
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It's fitting that San Francisco's Latino Community Foundation should be honoring Herman Gallegos at its gala this week. The foundation is cultivating a new generation of Latino philanthropists. And Gallegos, who is 78, is really the abuelo of Latino philanthropy.
A pioneer who helped start a number of national and local Hispanic civil rights groups, Gallegos also was one of the first U.S. Latinos to serve on some heavy-weight corporate and foundation boards. Not only that, he wrote the book (li
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The ax fell without sound or shadow: Tatiana Gallego was suddenly called into human resources and laid off from her job as an admissions counselor for a fashion college.
"The way people tried to explain it to me was, I was the last one hired so I was the first one out," said Gallego, 25, who had worked there for 17 months.
Last hired, first fired: This generations-old cliche rings bitterly true for millions of Latinos and blacks who are losing jobs at a faster rate than the general population
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I heard a cold truth again this week: “Not everyone is college material.” It was reiterated by a former teacher. Not one of mine, but a woman who had worked with enough students in her decades of secondary school teaching to make the claim with some authority.
I’ll concede the point and up the ante. Not everyone is high school material, either — at least, as high schools are currently constituted.
Sounds demeaning, right? It’s a tad impolite to say in public that large swaths of the population
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The six girls sitting in the church basement come here every Thursday to learn the 101’s of sewing and pattern making, but tonight they are in for a very different lesson.
“Do any of you watch the media or watch TV and say ‘I want to be that person and if I don’t dress like her I don’t feel good about myself?’” asks Kerstin Collett, who leads the class in Holy Cross Church in Chicago’s Back of the Yards. READ FULL STORY & VIEW VIDEORead more…
A lot of attention has been focused on the remarkable economic success of China, India and other Asian countries. So much so that the rise of Latin American companies as major players on the international economic scene has almost gone unnoticed.
“Latin American companies have fallen through the cracks,” says Lourdes Casanova, a lecturer in strategy at INSEAD and author of Global Latinas: Latin America’s emerging multinationals. “While other emerging market economies have been oversold, Latin A
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A group at the University of Virginia is trying to attract Hispanic students to the field of engineering.
UVA’s Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers hosted a leadership conference this weekend, hoping to build a network for future Hispanic engineers.
According to the Population Reference Bureau, Hispanics make up about 13 percent of the U.S. workforce but only around five percent of engineering and science professionals. READ FULL STORYRead more…
