What’s A Credit Union And Why Should I Switch From My Bank?

What’s A Credit Union And Why Should I Switch From My Bank?

Mary Mata October 18, 2011

By Patrick Keefe, Vice President of Communications for the Credit Union National Association  Should I transfer my personal financial business from a bank to a credit union? Many consumers are asking […]

Disappointment, Disorganization At #OccupyPhoenix

Mary Mata

By Esteban and Elizabeth Garcia Phoenix, Arizona — The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s changed our country forever. We went from a segregated society to all men being equal — […]

U.S Citizens Lack Stamina To Do Alabama Agriculture Work

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Alabama’s Governor Rob Bentley says he’s insulted. The idea that Americans, Alabamans in this specific case, can’t or won’t do the work available in the state’s tomato fields is…anti-American. But the […]

What I’ve Learned Occupying Wall Street And DC

Mary Mata October 17, 2011

By Lacy MacAuley, otherwords.org I was standing on a street one evening near my home in Washington, DC — it seems like ages ago now — with a chatty friend […]

Latinos Are Practically Absent From Corporate Leadership

Mary Mata

Despite the whole $1 trillion buying power, despite being 1 in 6 Americans, Latinos are largely absent from roles of corporate leadership. Several studies and a report from Poder360 found […]

Latino Owned Businesses On the Rise In Ohio

Mary Mata October 12, 2011

Finally, some economic news that’s not depressing: the number of Latino owned businesses in Butler County, Ohio have doubled in the last decade, according to the Middletown Journal. The article […]

Alabama Law Pushes Parents To Desperate Measures

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This is heartbreaking, but understandable. In the wake of Alabama’s new and strict immigration law, HB56,  we’ve reported about how businesses and schools are being affected. We’ve talked about the immense amount […]

Are Latinos Participating In Occupy Wall Street?

NewsTaco October 11, 2011

I’ve been watching the coverage of the occupy Wall Street movement — video, pictures — with an eye for color. I’m not there, in New York City, to see for […]

The End Of Texas As We Know It

Mary Mata October 10, 2011

By Cindy Casares There’s no doubt the world is in a crazy place right now, and Texas is no exception. It seems we’re entering a whole new era in the […]

Immigration Law Puts Alabama Teachers Out Of Work

NewsTaco October 6, 2011

It’s been a full week since the state of Alabama’s new immigration law went into effect. In that time anyone with half an opinion on the matter, including me and […]