wealth disparity
Youth Take on Budget Cuts “We Want Fully Funded Schools”
By Hector Bojorquez and Aurelio M. Montemayor, IDRA It was a mild October evening, so the meeting was held outside in the yard in part of the gravel driveway and the […]
Equal Pay For Latinas Stuck In The 1960’s
by Miryam Mora-Barajas Another Equal Pay Day has come and gone, but for Latinas, the benefits of the Equal Pay Act seems to have passed them by. In 1963, Kennedy signed […]
Why Occupy? It’s Personal
By María Cardona I appeared on a couple of segments on CNN this week where the topic was the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. A question raised was whether this was […]
More Latino Children In Poverty Than Any Other Group
By The Pew Hispanic Center The spread of poverty across the United States that began at the onset of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 and accelerated last year hit one fast-growing […]
One Recession, “Two Societies”
By Ralph De La Cruz, Florida Center for Investigative Reporting Everybody’s hurting. But, as usual, the level of hurt isn’t quite equal. Last week, the Pew Research Center released a study that looked at […]