In Texas 14 Students per Hour Continue to Leave Before Graduating High School

In Texas 14 Students per Hour Continue to Leave Before Graduating High School

NewsTaco October 27, 2010

Startling when you think of it in those terms. What’s it like where you live? The good folks at IDRA (Intercultural Development Research Association) have published a great Internet tool […]

Poll: Latino Voters More Enthusiastic

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Of course they are. It’s all about timing. With one week left before the mid-term election it’s time to gather some enthusiasm. Last week the news was all about the […]

Bilingual Groups Forming Comunidad Across the Nation

NewsTaco October 26, 2010

What happens when Latinos find themselves far from home and homesick? They carve out a place like home. Case in point, Maricela Joergens in Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin. She looked around […]

Deconstructing Univision

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At the suggestion of one of our readers who posted a recent comment asking “A greater question for hispanics should be, who owns Univision, and how are programming decisions made?” […]

The Latino College Graduation Gap: What Some Schools are Doing Right

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I have a daughter that will graduate from college this year. According to a recent report she’s beaten the odds. I’m not referring to the odds that say that Latinos […]

Pres. Obama Talks Immigration with Piolin on Spanish Radio

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A couple or three things to note about one of Pres. Obama’s recent radio interviews. First, that it was on Spanish radio; Univision radio to be exact. Second, that he […]

Can You Name the 25 National Latino Political Up-and-comers?

NewsTaco October 25, 2010

Do you know what they look like? Granted, the list is subjective, depending on your political persuasion and where you happen to live. The Washington Post put together an interesting […]

Census + Latino Market Growth = Wake Up Call

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A recent AdWeek article about the growing importance of the Latino market is upside down. Or as we tend to say in industry jargon, they buried the lead, deep. At […]

Whites Smoke More Pot, but Latinos Are Arrested More

NewsTaco October 22, 2010

Yeah. Try your best to not feign sarcastic surprise. Funny thing is, we need a study for that? Apparently the NAACP ponied the cash, and published the result. The headline […]

Latino teen age birth rates; new report, same story

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The good news is that overall, the number of births to teen aged mothers in the US is falling. You know what comes next. The down side. Births to Latino […]