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Oklahoma Immigration Bill Targets Smugglers, Not Businesses
Here’s a good indication as to where Oklahoma lawmakers’ minds are. The Associate Press is reporting An illegal immigration bill being considered by lawmakers this year will target human smugglers […]
Bien Hecho: Latina Works To Address Childhood Obesity
University of California at Davis Professor Adela de la Torre recently received a grant to help Latino kids in that state with obesity and related problems. She’s an agricultural economic and […]
Diabetes Doesn’t Have To Be A Death Sentence
We all know someone who has diabetes, but we may not all understand exactly what this disease does to the body. Diabetes is an incurable, but treatable disease where the […]
Who is GenYLA?
They’re being called GenYLA, as in generation Young Latino Americans, an offshoot of US marketers penchant for labeling swaths of consumers according to age and distinct behavioral tendencies: GenX, GenY, […]
Feds Sending Mixed Messages on Who Gets Deported
The last thing you need in a heated argument is confusion and mixed messages. If we’re going to bicker we should be able to do it with the same set […]
NewsTaco To Go: Census, Space, Drinking Water, HPV
The Year of the Rabbitt, your drinking water, the Census and minorities, HPV vaccines and new planets in our solar system in your NewsTaco To Go this morning — would […]
Mexicans: the Original Urban Hipster
I remember growing up that my abuelitos would save everything, we would sew our own clothes, crochet decorations for the house and try to fix things before buying new ones.
Is Culture To Blame For High Latina Suicide Attempt Rates?
Sara Inés Calderón speaks with Prof. Luis H. Zayas about his decades-long research into the rate of suicide attempts in Latinas.