During A Recession, Helplessness Abounds

Jobs numbers come and go these days and in this economy, but recently the jobs numbers weren’t so good and I suddenly looked around and saw that several of the […]

Latino college graduates suffered much more than their white counterparts when the economy began a downturn over the past few years, according to a report from the Pew Hispanic Center. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Unemployment claims rose again this week, to 412,000, hinting that perhaps the economy isn’t doing as well as we’d hoped. The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on […]

The Republicans in the House are seeking a 1-week extension to come to a budget deal after not coming to agreement with Democrats last night; about 800,000 federal workers would […]

Unemployment is the lowest it’s been in two years, 8.8%, and workers were added to the economy faster in the past two months than any other time since the recession […]

President Barack Obama, seemingly surprised by Census results, has begun to court Latino voters around the issue of education. Last week 6,000 less people applied for unemployment, perhaps hinting at […]

[Editor’s Note: The Latino Print Network recently sent out an email newsletter detailing the effects of the 2011 proposed federal budget cuts on Latinos, we reproduce that information here.] Cuts […]

Unemployment claims dropped by 5,000 last week to 382,000. Two planes landed without help from a control tower in Washington, D.C. yesterday at Reagan National Airport; it’s reported there was […]