Morning NewsTaco
Friday, April 20, 2012
Obama camp launches Latino push, hits Romney: With both sides eying one of the fastest-growing blocs in the American electorate, President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign on Wednesday announced an aggressive outreach to Latino voters, pushing Democrats’ reform proposals and casting Mitt Romney as “extreme” on immigration issues.
Mitt Romney: Not Winning Latino Vote “Spells Doom for Us”: Predicting that immigration would become a much larger issue in the fall campaign, Romney told his audience, “We have to get Hispanic voters to vote for our party,” warning that recent polling showing Hispanics breaking in huge percentages for President Obama “spells doom for us.”
Mitt Romney May Not Get Boost Among Hispanic Voters With Latino Vice President Pick: Picking a Latino running mate would not help Mitt Romney much with Hispanic voters, according to a poll released on Thursday.
First Thoughts: Romney’s own hot-mic moment: “The Department of Education: I will either consolidate with another agency, or perhaps make it a heck of a lot smaller. I’m not going to get rid of it entirely.”
Corporations Donate to Groups on Both Sides of Voter-ID: Companies giving at least $2 million to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation also backed an organization championing voter identification laws that caucus members say “suppress” minorities’ right to vote.
The Real Face of Stay-At-Home Mothers: Those Who Have No Other Financial Option: A study in 2010 conducted by the Census, looking at its own data on stay-at-home mothers, showed that as compared to the make-up in 1979, today’s moms in the home are younger, less educated, and much more likely to be Hispanic – and in particular, foreign born.
Elderly Americans struggle with economic insecurity: Most elderly retired Hispanic, African American and Asians living in the United States have difficulty covering basic daily expenses and have no economic security, new research shows.
Where Latinos Go to College: Latinos are seeking out for-profit colleges, because state schools aren’t a viable option for many of them anymore. The 25 percent completion rate isn’t actually all that low for proprietary colleges, but it’s probably too low for Latinos in general.
Undocumented Latina makes Time 100 list: Dulce Matuz has become a public face of undocumented students. She organizes protests and has been arrested. CNN.com profiled Matuz last year as part of its coverage leading up to the documentary “Don’t Fail Me: Education In America.”
Mexico’s Popocatepetl Volcano Continues to Spew Rock and Ash: National Disaster Prevention Center says in a report Wednesday that that some glowing rock fragments rolled about a quarter mile (half kilometer) down the slopes.
