South TX Oil Fields: Short-Term Benefits, Long-Term Probs

By Roberto R. Calderón So here we are again visiting the subject of the developing oil and gas field by intensive fracking technologies in a wide swath of South Texas counties. The Eagle Ford […]

Georgia State Rep. Katie Dempsey (R-Rome) said at a recent question and answer session that the HB 87 law requiring that companies with 10 or more employees use e-verify should be changed […]

By Deron Lovaas I’ve often written about much of the industrialized world lapping us in the global transportation infrastructure competition. I don’t know if I’d go as far as George […]

A new report found that Chicago’s local Latino population is a vital contributor to the local economy. The report, “The State of Latino Chicago 201: The New Equation”, by the […]

Back to Alabama for the moment, because I read something that I hadn’t seen regarding the issue of work and immigrants and that state’s economy. I came across an article in Bloomberg Businessweek titled: Why […]

By Maria Elena Alvarez Albuquerque, New Mexico — The White House has put a bead on the Hispanic community, and if Albuquerque were a microcosm of what is happening across […]

Over the weekend the White House held a Latino policy summit at the University of California at Riverside. Apparently, residents took White House Hispanic Community Action Summit as a chance […]

Latinos continue to suffer from a higher unemployment rate than the national average, according to a report from Hispanic Business: The unemployment rate for Hispanics ticked up a notch in October to […]

By René Lara, Political and Legislative Director of the Texas AFL-CIO Workers can form a labor union when they organize in an industry or job site for better wages, benefits and […]

By Geoconda Arguello-Kline, President of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 In the neon desert of Las Vegas, Wall Street bankers have teamed up with local billionaires to deny thousands of […]