Immigration is not the top priority for Latinos currently residing in the U.S., according to a recent study conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center, “Hispanics and the New Administration.” Senior researcher Mark Hugo López unveiled the top seven Latino priorities relating to the “New Administration,” and immigration was at the lower end of the rung.
“The economy ranked number one as the top issue for Latinos at 57 percent, and that is perhaps no surprise given the current economic situation in th
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Fortunately, Nancy Rivera now sees the light. She now knows the dangers of diabetes.
“I was a walking time bomb … waiting to explode,” says Rivera, a 48-year-old mother of four who was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
She had all the symptoms: she was overweight, constantly tired and always thirsty. Her blood sugar level was over 500, more than quadruple a normal blood glucose reading, which should typically fall between 80 and 120. She could have been in a coma. READ FULL STORYRead more…
What does the worst recession in a generation look like?
It is both deep and broad. Every state in the country, with the exception of a band stretching from the Dakotas down to Texas, is now shedding jobs at a rapid pace. And even that band has recently begun to suffer, because of the sharp fall in both oil and crop prices.
Unlike the last two recessions — earlier this decade and in the early 1990s — this one is causing much more job loss among the less educated than among college graduates. T
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Former San Antonio mayor and HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros recently surprised the Washington audience at the launch for a new book he edited, Latinos and the Nation’s Future, by declaring that the country’s first Hispanic president “has already been born.”
Of course, surprise is unjustified. The inauguration of the first black President was a tangible reminder for the entire country, and the rest of the world, of what demographers have long known: The face of America is changing. And the majorit
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Demoting importance of Spanish language undermines diversity
Immigrant integration is the order of the day. It is a topic that makes some uncomfortable, others angry and many baffled by the seriousness it inspires in some. Strong waves of immigration in recent decades in the U.S. have raised the concern of the decay of the apparent core American values.
The Bush Administration formed a sub-division within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security called the Task Force on New Americans, whose go
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Nell Soto, who worked in citrus groves as a Depression-era child and rose to become a California state senator and among the first Latino officials to fight for environmental protection, died Thursday. She was 82.
Soto, one of the first Latino women elected to statewide office from the Inland Empire, died at Woods Health Services in La Verne of complications from a stroke suffered in December.
She retired from public office last year after months of failing health.
In a statement Thursday, G
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When "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" producers looked for faces to illustrate their upcoming weeklong series on Latinos in the United States, they found one portrait in a well-known Waukesha family.
Waukesha County Circuit Judge Ralph Ramirez, his mother, Margaret, and his oldest daughter, Alicia, were interviewed for hours this month, with film shot in their homes, in Ramirez's court and in the Fitchburg store where Alicia recently started her new management job after college.
The seri
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When the Houston rodeo holds its annual parade this morning, there will be one grand marshal — Harris County Judge Ed Emmett. But there were supposed to be two.
Sheriff Adrian Garcia said he accepted the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo’s invitation to serve as co-grand marshal but backed out after learning that some minority leaders were planning to assail the rodeo’s treatment of Hispanics and African-Americans. READ FULL STORYRead more…
As Richard Nadler writes, when the Republican party assesses the 2008 election, it needs to take a close look at the Hispanic vote. There is no disagreement that we can and must do a better job of reaching Hispanic voters.
There is a disagreement, however, between those who believe support for “comprehensive” immigration reform should be a part of these efforts, and those who believe that such support would both constitute a dramatic departure from conservative principles and be unnecessary to
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A new report by the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies has found that Chattanooga's growing population has been fueled by a rising number of Latinos, young children and adults between the ages of 45 and 64 years old.
The report, Demographic Change in the Chattanooga Region, is based on information from the Census Bureau, the U.S. Postal Service, building permits, school enrollment data and other information collected and analyzed by the Ochs Center as part of the 2008 State of Chattanooga Reg
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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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February 23, 2009 (Chicago, IL) – Today, Karma Yacht Sales, LLC initiated a grass roots campaign on behalf of the Marine Sailboat Dealers and Sailing Community of Illinois in speaking out against proposed bill (HB0451). The campaign seeks to educate Illinois lawmakers on the effect of the proposed bill and its impact to retail businesses. The proposed bill seeks to impose a five percent luxury tax on a broad range of consumer products including automobiles over $60,000, watercraft exceeding a co
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California Rep. Hilda Solis won Senate confirmation to be labor secretary on Tuesday, ending her rocky two-month nomination process.
Solis faced tough questioning from the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee in her confirmation hearing last month. Republicans on the committee pressed Solis on her support for controversial card check legislation and her connection to a union-backing organization. Throughout the process, Republicans expressed concern at what they said was her
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There's but one plausible explanation for the arrest of 24 Hispanic men by federal immigration agents outside a Fells Point convenience store in 2007 - racial profiling. A recently released videotape and government documents detailing the incident provide a vivid look at how easily law enforcement can run amok when officers are only interested in making their numbers look good.
The officers were agents of the U.S. Homeland Security Department's Immigration and Customs Enforcement division, and
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Each Wednesday inside a room in a Lake Avenue office building, Virginia Campos watches as about 40 Latina entrepreneurs come together.
They are bakers, unemployed women, home cleaners, business executives (like Campos), media consultants, bankers and accountants.
And they are all there for a reason: to understand how to make it on their own.
"That's right ... meda, it's a sisterhood," Campos said on a recent Wednesday, as she took a quick breather from the third annual "Emerging Latinas in Bu
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In Pasadena, nearly half of the total population and 80 percent of the school kids are Hispanic.
But Carmen Orozco is the first – and only – member of the Pasadena ISD Board.
On the Pasadena City Council, there are no Hispanics at all.
And that’s not uncommon in Houston’s suburbs.
In some cities around Houston where Hispanics make up 25 to 50 percent of the population, there is no one like them on their councils.
School boards have the same lack of representation. READ FULL STORY & VIEW VIDRead more…
In the five years she has lived in Fort Myers, attorney Kristyn Whitlow has seen myriad black professionals come and go.
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Whitlow said black professionals typically leave Fort Myers two or three years after relocating here.
"They look around, and they don't see any other black professionals and they leave," Whitlow said. "It's not uncomfortable for me because I'm used to being the only black, but I know it bothers other black professionals."
Many local black professionals claim
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The Hispanic population is growing rapidly, and census figures estimate that by 2025, Hispanics in Illinois will make up nearly 17 percent of the state’s population, a surge of more than 1.2 million people since 1995.
With that growth comes a demand for Hispanic businesses, as second and third generation families choose products and services that complement their culture.
Adrian Soto sees this shift first-hand. His parents were immigrants and he, like many other young Hispanic professionals, h
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Lecturing a conscript conclave of Justice Department bureaucrats, Attorney General Eric Holder called America a "nation of cowards" last week for not spending more time talking about race.
Reading his speech, however, one recalls the sage counsel of Pat Moynihan to President Richard Nixon in 1970: This whole subject might benefit from a long period of "benign neglect."
One point Holder did allude to, without specifics, was this: "It is not safe for this nation to assume that the unaddressed s
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Arizona State University was cited several times among the top 25 institutions in the United States in “The Condition of Latinos in Education: Fact Book 2008” by Excelencia in Education.
ASU was ranked number 24 among the top 25 colleges and universities enrolling Latinos during the 2006-07 academic year. The university also came in at number 24 for the top 25 institutions awarding bachelor’s degrees to Latinos.
In engineering, ASU was ranked 17th for the top 25 institutions awarding engineeri
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