Invest In Education And Broadband Access To Help Latinos

By Kristian Ramos As Americans continue to struggle with high unemployment and underemployment at record levels, President Barack Obama has made building a stronger economy, a central theme in his re-election […]

Despite the U.S. economy’s addition of 243,000 jobs in January, the Latino community is still struggling with an unemployment rate of 10.5%. According to the U.S. Labor Department’s January report, the […]

By David Elliot, otherwords.org Many people know that some 14 million Americans, officially about 9 percent of the nation’s work force, are unemployed. Another 12 million are under-employed. That means […]

Back to Alabama for the moment, because I read something that I hadn’t seen regarding the issue of work and immigrants and that state’s economy. I came across an article in Bloomberg Businessweek titled: Why […]

Over the weekend the White House held a Latino policy summit at the University of California at Riverside. Apparently, residents took White House Hispanic Community Action Summit as a chance […]

If you’re Latino and looking for a job you’re 1 in 10 (actually you’re 1.1 in 10, I rounded). This recession has been harder on Latinos than it has on […]

It was bound to happen. Given the political grudge match in Washington; given the lackluster state of the economy; given all the talk of the Latino vote potential; and given […]

By Hilda Solids, Secretary of Labor I spent Labor Day with President Obama in Detroit. As we looked ahead to his big speech tonight and discussed his plan to put […]

After one grueling August, President Obama tried to re-inspire voters in a Labor Day speech in Detroit yesterday, previewing elements of his address to Congress planned for Thursday.  While many […]

By Eliseo Medina, International Secretary-Treasurer, Service Employees International Union While workers across the country celebrate having time off this Labor Day, unemployed men and women are desperately seeking ways to […]