Secretary Of Labor Hilda L. Solis Supports Unions

I was “raised union.” My mother, who immigrated to the United States from Nicaragua, worked the 3 p.m. to midnight shift at a toy factory after the birth of my […]

Former Census Director and Texas Demographer Steve Murdock has gotten a lot of flack over a quote misattributed to him, “It’s basically over for Anglos,” in Texas. National Institute for […]

Twenty year-old Marisol Marisol Valles García took over as police chief in a small town of Praxedis G. Guerrero on the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez after no one else would last […]

Three Latino police officers have been trying to move up the career ladder in Westminster, California, but they haven’t gotten very far. They’ve been passed-up repeatedly in favor of less experienced officers. The only […]

Two Spanish dichos come to mind: Dios los hace y ellos se encuentran, God creates them and they find each other; and cada loco con su tema, which kinda’ defies […]

192,000 jobs were added to the economy in February, which is the biggest jump since mid-2010. Republican lawmakers are trying to pass off their cuts to the budget as job […]

This one’s a doozy! Do you remember the immigrant labor-loving Texas Republican State Rep. Debbie Riddle, who proposed a bill making it illegal to hire people without papers — unless […]

A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that a diabetic reaching the age of 50 is likely to die 6 years earlier than someone who […]

[Editor’s Note: This story by Roberto Ontiveros was originally published in the Texas Observer.] MY LATE GRANDMOTHER MARTHA made mole—which I knew as a dark peanut and chocolate sauce over chicken—for […]

Not to gloat and say “I told you so,” but I told you so. We’ve been talking at News Taco about how the totals for the Latino population in the […]