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Study Finds Less Access To Super markets In Latino And Low-Income Areas

Mary Mata June 14, 2013

By Joey Palacios, Texas Public Radio According to an aggregated study by the UT Health Science Center, people have a better chance of finding a fast food establishment than a supermarket […]

Doubling Student Interest Rates Would Be Devastating For Latinos

Mary Mata

Report highlights STEM workers who often go ignored

Mary Mata June 12, 2013

Pay gap tied to minimum wage; Latinas hit hardest

Mary Mata June 10, 2013

By Jacquellena Carrero, NBCLatino The fact that women’s wages lag behind men’s is nothing new, but a new report is showing that the minimum wage may have something to do with […]

Common Application statement on undoc students a hoax

Mary Mata

By Jonathan Munoz, Voxxi The Common Application, Inc., more commonly referred to as the Common App, used by 488-plus colleges and universities for undergraduate admissions services, was the ‘victim’ of a […]

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

Mary Mata

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. […]

Latino Jobless Rate Up in May, Down Since 2012

Mary Mata

By Hispanic Business As with the population at large, the unemployment rate for Hispanics continues to drop as the U.S. economy keeps trudging its way out of the gloom of the Great […]