News Taco To Go: Farmworkers, Tea Party, Surnames & Census

News Taco To Go: Farmworkers, Tea Party, Surnames & Census

Mary Mata June 16, 2011

Texas, The U.S. Becoming More Latino Lots Of Latinos Don’t Have spanish Surnames (Like Me) Racist Statement Uncovers Real Tea Party California Law To Give Farmworkers Union Rights

Texas, The U.S., Becoming More And More Latino

Mary Mata June 15, 2011

Both sides of my family have long resided in the borderlands, specifically El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, but recently on the American side for just over one hundred years. During […]

News Taco To Go: Latinos, Diabetes, DREAMers & White House

Mary Mata

The Top 10 States With The Largest Latino Populations One Glass Of OJ A Day Could Lead To Diabetes 67 Sueños: Help Undocumented Students Share Their Story How To Get […]

The Top 10 States With The Largest Latino Populations

Mary Mata June 14, 2011

Looking at the most recent Census data allows us to obtain a clearer picture of how, precisely, Latinos are growing as a population in this country. However, looking at this […]

Georgia’s Latino Population Set To Double In 8 Years

Mary Mata June 8, 2011

Members of a Georgia Kiwanis Club were shocked to hear recently that Georgia is now California. Or, as The Albany Herald reported, the Latino population in that state is set […]

The Top 10 Latino Ethnic Groups In The U.S.

Mary Mata June 7, 2011

If you didn’t read our post last week about an analysis from Pew Hispanic Center that divvied up the Latino population in the U.S. into ethnic sub-groups, here it is again […]

Less Than 6 Million Latino Adults Have A College Degree

Mary Mata

Recently I was perusing Census data to determine, exactly, how many Latinos in this country have college degrees. Given that Latinos are a fast growing portion of the U.S. population, […]

Latinos In Congress Are In Texas, More May Be On The Way

Mary Mata June 2, 2011

The Texas congressional redistricting map is out and, as is always the case with these things, there are winners and losers. One big winner may be San Antonio — one […]

Latinos: More Than Half U.S. Population Growth

Mary Mata

The Hispanic population in the U.S. accounted for more than half of the total population growth in the country outpacing other demographic groups, according to a U.S. Census Bureau brief […]

News Taco To Go: Census, Brisenia, Veterans & Bilingualism

Mary Mata June 1, 2011

31.7 Million Mexicans, Millions More Latinos In The U.S. Is There Justice Two Years After Brisenia Flores’ Death? Bien Hecho: Border Vets Fight For VA Hospital Multitasking, Reduced Alzheimer’s, More […]