How Budget Cuts Will Affect Latinos

The eleventh hour negotiated national budget may have staved a government shutdown, but the bickering, er, negotiating, is far from over. All that the announcement of Friday last did was […]

If it weren’t for the dismally low number of Latino journalists in US newsrooms there would probably be no need for News Taco. It’s that simple. News Taco was conjured […]

Votes and political power have much to do with influence, and as more Latinos become eligible and vote the influence will follow. But there’s a lot to be said about […]

by Melissa del Bosque from the Texas Observer where this article was first posted. The United States has become awfully hostile to immigrants crossing its southern border in recent years—unless […]

There are plenty of places to keep an eye on today – with the budget impasse in Washington and all. At the state level there are important bills and ideas […]

Whether the federal government shuts down or not is yet to be seen. The hard and fast deadline for a negotiated agreement on the federal budget is midnight, tonight. In the mean […]

I’ve written several times about how of all of the Latinos that live in the US, only 41 percent are eligible to vote. That means that they are citizens at […]

So while the President and the leaders of congress were working to avert a government shutdown in the past few days the Tea Party was launching an assault on the […]

If you’re keeping score, Alabama is the latest state to move on enacting an Arizona-type immigration law. The measure, that approved by the alabama House of Representatives by a vote […]

If Texas is an indication of what the rest of the country will be like and look like in the future-and we at News Taco have been pounding that drum […]