Texas Demographer Has Given the Same Speech for 25 Years. Is Anyone Listening?

Texas Demographer Has Given the Same Speech for 25 Years. Is Anyone Listening?

NewsTaco April 12, 2017

*Why you should read this: Because of two things – one, demography is destiny; and two, as Texas goes so will the country, eventually. VL By Sam DeGrave, Texas Observer (2.5 […]

A Poor Christmas for Latino Elders on LA Streets

NewsTaco December 27, 2016

*Don’t mean to dampen your holiday mood, but this is important and not only in LA: “Twelve percent of the 7.1 million people the Regional Food Bank serves annually, more […]

New Census data show strong 2015 earnings with Latinos seeing fastest growth

NewsTaco September 14, 2016

*The good news? That Latino earnings are up to $62,950. The bad? That 28.9 percent of Latinos younger than 18 live in poverty. VL By Valerie Wilson, Economic Policy Institute […]

Papal Visit Brings Excitement, Anxiety to Congress

NewsTaco September 23, 2015

*The big speech to the joint session of congress is Thursday. Depending on where you stand on any number of issues, and which you consider more important than others, you’re […]

Migrants victims of ‘throwaway society’, says Pope

NewsTaco June 22, 2015

*I would call this a signal of what we should expect for Pope Francis to say when he visits the U.S. in September. He’ll be addressing a joint session of […]

In America’s Poorest City, a Housing Breakthrough

NewsTaco October 2, 2014

*All it takes is creativity and people coming together. The main problem here is poverty, so this housing is about more than just shelter; it’s an example of how things […]

Hundreds Crowd to Watch Barefoot Triquis in Pico-Union

Mary Mata December 23, 2013

By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog The by-now world famous barefoot Triqui Indian basketball players from Oaxaca played their first games to huge crowds at a children’s tournament at Toberman […]

A look at economic inequality, through a Latino lens

Mary Mata July 30, 2013

By Claudio Iván Remeseira, NBCLatino President Obama has been taking to the road urging action to reduce wage disparities.  In a recent interview for the New York Times , he worried that “years […]

In a nation soon to be majority minority, Latinos struggle to climb out of poverty

Mary Mata June 10, 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. […]

Aging Between 2 Worlds: Latinos Thrive on Faith, Optimism, Tradition

Mary Mata March 21, 2013

By Yolanda Gonzalez Gomez, New America Media Part 2. Read Part 1 here.  DALLAS, Texas–“Lord, give me the strength of the buffalo, and make me like the eagle,” is one of the […]