Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
By Ashley Paker, Washington Post WASHINGTON — Congressional budget analysts, providing a positive economic assessment of proposed immigration law changes, said Tuesday that legislation to overhaul the nation’s immigration system would cut close to $1 trillion from the federal deficit over the next two decades and lead to more than 10 million new legal residents
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
By Valeria Fernández, New America Media Editor’s Note: Rose Castillo Guilbault, celebrated author of the memoir, “Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America,” has just released a new work with co-author Louis E.V. Nevaer, entitled “The Latinas Guide to Success...
Monday, June 17th, 2013
By Elizabeth Llorente , Fox News Latino States that saw the highest rate of Latino growth in the 2012 Census Bureau estimates were places not normally seen as magnets for the ethnic community. But the pattern of Latinos settling...
Monday, June 10th, 2013
By Jacquellena Carrero, NBCLatino The fact that women’s wages lag behind men’s is nothing new, but a new report is showing that the minimum wage may have something to do with it. According to a study by the National Women’s Law...
Monday, June 10th, 2013
By Jonathan Munoz, Voxxi The Common Application, Inc., more commonly referred to as the Common App, used by 488-plus colleges and universities for undergraduate admissions services, was the ‘victim’ of a hoax on Tuesday as they were forced...
Monday, June 10th, 2013
By Gosia Wozniacka, Washington Post ”America’s communities have become divided between economic winners and losers,’ said Daniel Lichter, a Cornell University sociologist and past president of the Population Association of America. ‘Increasingly, Hispanics begin life’s race at a...
Thursday, June 6th, 2013
By Giovanni Rodriguez, ClickZ A recent blog post in Forbes might help marketers grasp one of the most enduring principles of digital and social technology: while some things never change, what changes around the edges is what’s most...
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
By Fox News Latino SEATTLE – A former Microsoft manager’s efforts to create the first national brand of marijuana received support Thursday from the former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox. At a news conference in Seattle, former...
Thursday, May 30th, 2013
By Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times Immigrants have contributed billions of dollars more to Medicare in recent years than the program has paid out on their behalf, according to a new study, a pattern that goes...
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
By Robert Lynch and Patrick Oakford, Center for American Progress …there are significant economic benefits to the U.S. economy and to all Americans when unauthorized immigrants acquire provisional legal status. Our prior research in a Center for American...
Friday, May 24th, 2013
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco We have tiny attention spans. I won’t expand further, you can Google it yourself; here’s a LINK to get you started. I mention this because it’s been a scant few days since the Cleveland...
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
By Texas Public Radio President Obama brought a message of economic recovery when he visited Austin, the first stop in his “Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour.” Latinos in the U.S., however, are trailing behind the national average in unemployment....
Thursday, May 9th, 2013
By Kent Hoover, Austin Business Journal Celebrity advocates are common on Capitol Hill, but actressEva Longoria was more than just a pretty face at a Senate hearing on “Strengthening the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for Minority Women.” The “Desperate Housewives”...
Thursday, May 9th, 2013
By David Ferguson, The Raw Story A group of agricultural workers in southern California lost their jobs last week when they took shelter to escape the ash-filled air blowing down on them ahead of one of the...

