Texas Today Is The U.S. Tomorrow
Texas Today Is The U.S. Tomorrow
[Editor’s Note: Victor Landa wrote an editorial for Fox News Latino entitled, “To See America’s Future, Look at Texas” on March 1.] My colleague Victor Landa recently wrote an editorial […]
Census: Democracy Requires Addressing Latino Interests
[Editor’s Note: This post was written by Sylvia Manzano originally appeared in Latinovations and is re-posted here with permission.] The U.S. Census Bureau recently released the Texas state file including […]
Latinos Are Like Population Penicillin
There’s a big chunk of America where more people are dying than being born, and you can put a stack of chips on the square that says that chunk has […]
Latinos Outnumber Native Americans In Oklahoma
Latinos now outnumber Native Americans in Oklahoma, a state that has marketed if not truly valued its Native American heritage. The Native American Times (via AP) reports that, with recent […]
NewsTaco To Go: New Zealand Quake, Wisconsin, Census, Libya And Chicago
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand Tuesday; the quake is centered around Christchurch and at least 65 people have died. Protestors in Libya have been killed and their bodies are […]
Latinos Undercounted In Census, Millions In Funding Lost
There’s already controversy surrounding the 2010 Census, even though it hasn’t even been fully released. Along the U.S.-Mexico border, where Latinos are concentrated, poor neighborhoods known as colonias were severely […]
Texas, U.S. Must Adjust To New Latino Majority
[Editor’s Note: The following is a commentary from Professor Roberto R. Calderón, Ph.D. from the Department of History at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. He previously appeared on NewsTaco commenting […]
Citizenship And Latino Voting Eligibility
[Editor’s Note: The following is a re-post written by Angelo Falcón with the National Institute for Latino Policy.] After factoring in voting age and citizenship status, in 2009 only 41 […]
NewsTaco To Go: Census, Wisconsin Unions, Job Discrimination, Egypt And BP
Census data released in Texas show that 89% of the state’s growth over the past decade was made up by minorities, specifically Latinos. Wisconsin has been taken over by pro-union protestors, […]
Latinos Set To Grow In The Census — But Who Cares?
Latinos are going to be big in the Census, as we’ve reported, but one writer says this is irrelevant. Miguel Perez writes that, every time the Census comes out the […]