$3.7 Million To Bridge The New Digital Divide

The US Commerce Department is putting money directly into Latino communities across the country to bridge the new digital divide. We’ve written about this at News Taco; Latinos access the Internet mostly through their mobile […]

There are 25 million Latinas in the U.S. and companies like Kmart have taken notice. In a new campaign called Latina Smart, Kmart recruited five Latina bloggers to write about […]

Ever wonder how that fast food place or the neighborhood restaurant stays open in a deep recession? According to fruitnet.com, it’s likely because of Latino consumers. …the US Hispanic segment accounted for over 50 […]

According to a report by the Center for American Progress Latino families and businesses have been the hardest his by soaring gasoline prices. The report cites a poll conducted by […]

Facebook is the largest news organization to have ever existed, this according to a story in the Harvard Business Review. We’ve written consistently that Latinos are big on Facebook (2.7 […]

So, now that I’m about to round out my first week as a full-time blogger, let me tell you something I know we’ve all wondered: no, working from home is […]

Texas Congressman Blake Farenthold recently told a town hall meeting audience in Brownsville, Texas that people who are unemployed and on other public benefits should probably be drug tested, because it’s […]

It’s a double-edged sword, but good news overall – and it flies in the face of the nay-saying, anti-immigrant, nativist lot. According to a report by the Migration Policy Institute, […]

The special forces operation that killed über bad-guy Osama Bin Laden was a watershed moment on several fronts. For national security, for the so-called war on terror, and for the […]

By Efrain Nieves At 17.7 percent Connecticut has the third-highest unemployment rate in the nation with Latinos at the lead. Only Rhode Island, with 21.8 percent unemployment, and Nevada, 18.6 percent, have […]