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Insuring undocumented residents could help solve multiple U.S. health care challenges

NewsTaco March 20, 2015

*Two things stand out in this article: the authors of the study and the specificity of their findings. The three authors, researchers at UCLA and Berkeley, are Latino, and they’re […]

Schools after the surge: Swamped by migrant kids, Miami-Dade district seeks more funding

NewsTaco March 19, 2015

Public Libraries and Hispanics

NewsTaco March 18, 2015

Schools after the surge: How they’ve dealt with 2014’s flood of undocumented minors

NewsTaco March 17, 2015

*There was so much speculation at the time of the unaccompanied minor surge along the border. How much would it cost to house the children, to educate them, should they […]

Vulnerable Latino Elders Face Shortage of Geriatric Health Professionals

NewsTaco March 16, 2015

*In their later years my parents received the best medical care available to them. That was becasue mom was a public health nurse, so coordinating the team effort between multiple […]

NAACP battles Latino groups over push to open public schools for non-English speakers

NewsTaco March 11, 2015

*Isn’t part of the problem the lack of funds for low income schools? When funds are woefully limied, it pits Latinos against blacks. Isn’t that the real problem? VL By […]

Hispanics face serious drinking water issue along Texas border

NewsTaco March 10, 2015

*This is also part of the national Latino narrative. There are places in Latino concentrated South Texas where as many as 90 thousand people have no running water. It’s also […]