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The missing paycheck: Research reveals new evidence on the racial wage gap

NewsTaco September 4, 2015

*Apropos of the Pope’s visit. If you’re Catholic, how does this pan out in your parish? VL By Nicole Sotelo, National Catholic Reporter You may not think about the paychecks […]

From Dishwasher to Award-Winning Restaurateur

NewsTaco September 1, 2015

Katrina New Orleans

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Young Latinos Have Quickest Rebound After Recession

NewsTaco August 25, 2015

*Certainly good news, but,wow, 16 percent of 18 and 19 year-old Latinos were neither in school nor working in 2014. Unemployment for young Latinos is 19 percent; it was 32 […]

Latinos are a large part of Dallas’ growing poverty problem

NewsTaco August 17, 2015

*In Dallas, Texas, Latinos are 40 percent of the population, and 52 percent of the city’s poor.  The city’s Mayor has formed a task force that, as Mercedes Olivera tells […]

Latinos Deserve Full Economic Citizenship

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*There’s good information here, couched in a blatant ad for MasterCard, but the point is a good one. I may have written a different headline, and I would have tried […]

Unauthorized Immigrants Paid $100 Billion Into Social Security Over Last Decade

NewsTaco August 14, 2015

*A couple of things; I’ve been seeing “unauthorized immigrant” used more and more in news stories. I have no problem with it, just an observation. As far as the Social […]