Latino unemployment rate drops to 6.3 percent
NewsTaco January 8, 2016
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its December employment numbers this morning, and economists are calling the report stellar. [tweet_dis]There were 1,655,000 unemployed Latinos in the U.S. […]
Two Texan Latinas Cross Political Aisles, Create Consulting Firm
NewsTaco December 28, 2015
*This puts a whole new twist on the “abuela” stir from last week. The bond they share, they say, is abuela power. VL By Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, NBC News SAN […]
Unclear whether Fed’s rate hike will help Latinos continue climbing economic ladder
NewsTaco December 17, 2015
*After seven years of a net-zero rate the Fed yesterday raised the prime. The U.S. unemployment rate is 5 percent, but for Latinos its 6.4 percent. Increases in the prime […]
Community Rallies Around Mexican Grocery Store
NewsTaco December 14, 2015
*A good happy ending story. It started badly, with vandalism on the wall of a Mexican grocery store: Go back to Mexico now. The community around Las Palmas store in […]