The War On The Middle Class Is A War On Latino Families
The War On The Middle Class Is A War On Latino Families
If you haven’t seen the infographic from The Center for American Progress depicting the stark contrast between middle and working class program cuts and tax breaks for the wealthy, you […]
Detailed List of the Effects of the Federal Budget Cuts on Latinos
Wendy Carrillo and the good folks at Voto Latino have put together a comprehensive list of the impact that the biggest budget cuts in history will have on the Latino community. Political […]
HGTV: Diversity On TV Means Money
NPR ran a great report today about how HGTV — that’ Home and Garden Television — was able to boost viewership by featuring Latinos, African Americans and Asians in roles […]
How Budget Cuts Will Affect Latinos
The eleventh hour negotiated national budget may have staved a government shutdown, but the bickering, er, negotiating, is far from over. All that the announcement of Friday last did was […]
News Taco To Go: Gas, Burkas, Earthquakes, Budgets And Libya
Gas prices keep inching toward $4 nationwide, albeit in some places it already costs more than that for a gallon of gas. Unrest in the Middle East is being blamed […]
Wachovia Complicit In Laundering Mexican Drug Money
The Guardian in the United Kingdom wrote an extensive piece uncovering that Wachovia Bank, now a part of Wells Fargo, helped drug cartels in Mexico launder beaucoup bucks in order […]
“Show me Your Papers,” When Your Papers are Pesos
by Melissa del Bosque from the Texas Observer where this article was first posted. The United States has become awfully hostile to immigrants crossing its southern border in recent years—unless […]
How Will a Federal Government Shutdown Affect You?
Whether the federal government shuts down or not is yet to be seen. The hard and fast deadline for a negotiated agreement on the federal budget is midnight, tonight. In the mean […]
Puerto Rico’s Economic Recovery Outlook Not Great
[Editor’s Note: The following post is excerpted from remarks made by William C. Dudley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on April 1, 2011.] […]
Census Data In Picture, Map Form
The Center for American Progress has put together both an interactive map with Census data and an infographic called “The New Demographics,” see it below. The map, “America’s Changing Demographics,” shows […]