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NewsTaco September 20, 2012

Thursday September 19, 2012 North Carolina Sheriff Targeted Latinos; Called Them ‘Taco Eaters’ (Fox News Latino): A North Carolina sheriff and his deputies routinely discriminated against Latinos — whom he called […]

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Mary Mata September 19, 2012

Wednesday September 19, 2012 Latino Voters Affirm Economy As Top Issue In New Poll (Fox News Latino/Huffington Post): Mitt Romney’s focus on the economy as his main talking point this campaign […]

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Mary Mata August 31, 2012

Friday August 31, 2012 Latino voters likely to make up 8% of electorate in 7 tossup states (Denver Post):  A new study by the Center for Immigration Studies projects that […]

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Mary Mata August 28, 2012

Tuesday August 28, 2012 A race against time to get Latinos registered to vote (Voxxi): For get-out-the vote efforts, it seems like it’s going to be a race against the […]

Racism, Even Out Of Ignorance, Is A Trend We Should Not Ignore

NewsTaco August 23, 2012

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Trends are hard things to ignore. So if anyone says they were blind-sided by a trend it’s either because they weren’t paying attention, or they’re not being honest. For instance, we’ve […]

When No One Knows You’re Latino

Mary Mata

By Taína Haiman, Being Latino The Census Bureau is currently in the process of revising how it addresses the race of Latino respondents. In the 2010 Census, Americans were asked […]

Campus Life Changes As Latino Enrollment Hits New Levels

Mary Mata August 21, 2012

By Lalo alcaraz, Pocho Ñews Service Latinos are now the largest minority group at four-year colleges in the U.S., according to analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center, […]

Too Big For One Box! One Box Is Not Enough! More Boxes, Please!

Mary Mata

By Julia Lopez, Mi Soul Latino For years, in the United States each of us has be quantified. We fill out forms for identification purposes that leave us with mass […]

Hispanics Now Largest Minority Group On Four-Year College Campuses

Mary Mata

PRESS RELEASE One-in-Four Public Elementary School Students is Hispanic  Hispanics now are the largest minority group on the nation’s four-year college campuses, according to an analysis of newly available U.S. Census Bureau data […]

Census Reveals Experimental Form, Muddles Latino Question More

NewsTaco August 9, 2012

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco If there’s such a thing as a Census placebo the federal government gave out about a half million of them in 2010. Two years later they’re […]