There are no Hispanic principals or assistant principals in Metro Nashville Public Schools, where Hispanic students make up 14 percent of the enrollment — with much higher percentages in some schools.
That's among the multitude of issues that the newly formed Association of Hispanic Educators will explore as it sets goals to increase educational opportunities for Hispanic students, teachers and staff. READ FULL STORYRead more…
U.S. President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner received failing grades for their efforts to revive the economy from participants in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey.
The economists' assessment stands in stark contrast with Mr. Obama's popularity with the public, with a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC poll giving him a 60% approval rating. A majority of the 49 economists polled said they were dissatisfied with the administration's economic policies.
On aver
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As the economic crisis gathered steam last year, Americans became increasingly stressed out and experienced worsened mental health — a trend that continues today, according to a landmark Gallup-Healthways poll out this week.
Done nearly every day in 2008 and still ongoing, the survey of 355,334 people is believed to be the largest, longest and most thorough poll showing how emotional well-being shifts with economic changes. READ FULL STORYRead more…
My wise old grandmother used to invoke the Spanish phrase, "When money is tight, a nickel isn't worth a dime."
Actually, that's not a phrase in Spanish (I think it's Yogi Berra). And my grandmother has never passed along anything resembling sage-like insight. She's much more likely to complain that young people don't wear enough clothes.
The point is that we Latinos don't have any special wisdom for dealing with this economic disaster, which has become (say it with me) the worst crisis since t
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He urged new spending and accountability, linking his priorities to the success of the economy.
President Obama on Tuesday sharply criticized the U.S. public school system and outlined a strategy to reward good teachers and fire bad ones, establish uniform academic achievement standards and increase spending on the first and final stages of a person's education.
In a speech to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Obama called on teachers unions, state education officials and parents to chang
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Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee (HPGM) will host a leadership conference to provide Hispanic professionals with valuable tools to enhance leadership skills and expand their professional networks.
“These resources can help set Latinos apart in this competitive, shrinking job market,” said Yvonne Brodsky, Executive Director of HPGM.
The half-day event will promote leadership development among Hispanic professionals. It will be held on Friday, March 20 at the Wisconsin Club from 7:30
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Community alliances fighting to keep the affordable healthcare provider open
Elia Arenas, an unemployed resident of Pilsen, was searching for a clinic that provided affordable healthcare services in her neighborhood. She was referred to the UIC (University of Illinois at Chicago) Women’s Community Clinic, 1858 W. 18th St., which provides annual gynecological exams, prenatal services and other family medical services. She has been visiting the clinic for over a year. READ FULL STORYRead more…
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 STORYRead more…
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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Before Karen Hoyos moved to New York City from Colombia, she was a housewife and expectant mother. She didn't work outside the home and had never once thought of becoming a motivational speaker.
But Hoyos did move to the United States, driven to seek shelter with family in Queens as she fled from her husband, who beat her.
She could never have imagined that only five years later, having raised twin boys on her own, she would be working as a successful motivational speaker and life coach, on th
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Martín Moreno, a nationally known muralist and co-owner of a Phoenix gallery, is part of a group that plans to launch a Latino cultural center. “It's kind of embarrassing (that Phoenix doesn't have such a cultural center in place),” he says.
When Elizabeth Gauna closed the Museo Chicano in January, it wasn't just the end of a small Phoenix museum.
It left a city of 1.5 million people, 40 percent of them of Hispanic descent, without a Latino art museum.
While major Latino museums have sprung
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When black and Hispanic Medicare recipients suffer severe heart failure, they are less likely than their white counterparts to be treated with the most cutting-edge treatment available, a new analysis suggests.
"We found that there were real but modest differences between racial and ethnic groups in the use of the most advanced devices for the treatment of severe heart failure, even after considering all the medical and diagnostic factors when providing those treatments," explained the study's
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For so many girls – Latina or not – the issues are the same: money, health, sex, career, education, boyfriends.
Each year, South County educators bring together girls and mentors to talk about these and other tough subjects as part of a daylong celebration of Latinas. There's pan dulce and advice on finances, mariachi music and warnings about date rape.
The 16th annual Adelante Mujer South Bay Conference is scheduled for Saturday at Eastlake Middle School in Chula Vista. Adelante Mujer is Span
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President Obama will open the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce 19th Annual Legislative Conference next Tuesday with a keynote address. The president is halfway into the first 100 days of his administration, and his approach to improving the American economy is expected to be a large part of his address to the gathering of Hispanic entrepreneurs, small business owners, elected officials, and other leaders from communities across the nation.
President Obama will address the conference
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The Obama administration on Wednesday announced a loan modification program that it says could keep as many as many as 9 million borrowers in their homes.The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the Making Home Affordable Plan, part of President Barack Obama’s efforts to pump life back into the economy.The plan would create a $75 billion loan modification program that would allow “responsible homeowners” to refinance to interest rates as low as 2 percent.“For many families, a low-cost refin
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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.
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Four Hispanic scholars will receive cash awards from Educational Testing Service (ETS) at the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) annual conference in San Antonio, Texas on March 7. The awards recognize dissertations chosen from more than 50 entries, as part of the second annual competition sponsored by ETS.
Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will receive the first place award, the "Kurt M. Landgraf Outstanding Dissertation Award," for h
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BNSF Railway was recently recognized by Latina Style magazine as one of the 50 best companies for Latinas to work for in the United States.
"Diversity has evolved into an integral part of BNSF's culture and business climate," McFalls said. "We appreciate the recognition that Latina Style magazine has given BNSF over the years and trust our ongoing commitment to diversity will keep us in their spotlight."
Latina Style surveyed more than 800 prominent U.S. corporations to select their top 50. Co
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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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For Patricia Gandara, Co-director of the Civil Rights Project at the University California at Los Angeles, the educational outlook for Hispanics is grim: Although Latinos are the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the nation, they drop out of high school at alarming rates and have made virtually no progress in the level of college completion in the last 30 years.
During a lecture at Teachers College on February 26, Gandara said that the percentage of 25- to 29-year-old white America
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