US Census: 22% of Latinos Live in Poverty
US Census: 22% of Latinos Live in Poverty
While they’re just preliminary estimates, advances of the official numbers to come, the US Census pre-release releases are giving us an indication of what we should expect. The official population […]
Man Who Started Local Anti-Immigrant Laws is Going to DC
Remember Hazleton, PA? Not as in “last time you were there,” but as in the headlines the town generated back in 2006. That was when Hazelton’s city council considered restrictive […]
BlackBerry Hates My Spanglish
I’m a pocha, loud and proud, and part of my pocha heritage is that I comunicate in Spanglish. Everywhere. In letters, in conversation, in emails, in cards and, most recently, […]
The Long Tail of Latinos on Twitter
By Giovanni Rodriguez, ClickZ.com A study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project confirmed what a lot of us in the Latino marketing community have known. Latinos index […]
Latino Backlash Against GOP Hardliners
[Latinalista.net‘s Marisa Treviño published a great piece about a growing wave among Latino Republicans against their fellow GOP’ers who have acted against passage of the DREAM Act. It’s good, it’s […]
Latino Republicans Call Tancredo Out as a Hypocrite
I don’t know if there’s a rock big enough for Tom Tacnredo to hide under, but he needs to find it fast, if only to take a breath. The folks […]
Young Latinos Mean Big Money
Richie and Lucía Matthews wrote an interesting piece about the big money power of young Latinos in the U.S. Not only is the Latino market in the U.S. projected to […]
BREAKING: San Antonio DREAMers Will Not Be Charged
As we reported at the end of last month, DREAM Act protesters in Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s San Antonio, Texas offices were arrested after a sit-in there. Carlos Guerra […]
Guapura 101: Zap Zits With Salt Water
I remember that when I lived in Brownsville — at the tip of Texas on the ocean and border — I had great skin. Part of this, I always supposed, […]
Americans Google Lindsay Lohan More Than Immigration
It seems that in 2010 Americans, or at least those who use search engines on the Internet, were more concerned with Lindsay Lohan and Sandra Bullock than they were with […]