Despite a recent vote to unravel President Barack Obama’s health care law, Obamacare remains good to go and is expected to benefit an estimated 10 million eligible Latinos on October 1. “For Latinos who stand to benefit the most from the Affordable Care Act, [the vote] symbolizes that there are people in Congress who are not […]
Just Before Labor Day, a Report Shows Struggles of Latino Workers
September 3, 2013 By
By Griselda Nevarez, Voxxi A new report by the AFL-CIO depicts how, even after four years since the recession officially ended, Latino workers continue to be disproportionally affected by the weak economic recovery. The report released Thursday finds that as the U.S. economy recovers, Latinos are facing higher rates of unemployment and underemployment, as well as lower wages and […]
More Latinas Gaining Independence with Higher Education
August 23, 2013 By
Recent reports revealed that Latinas are obtaining a higher education more than ever, but graduate researcher Andrea Gomez Cervantes found that while Latino families encouraged their daughters to attend college, they are often expected to stay closer to home. “I work at admissions and I know a lot of Latino families who don’t let their […]
Guest Blogger: Vanessa Cardenas “Win-Win Situation: An All-In Nation of Racial Equality Fosters Economic Prosperity”
August 16, 2013 By
If you knew you could do the right thing and personally benefit from it, would you do it? I am willing to bet most of us would. Last week, the Center for American Progress and PolicyLink released a book, All-In Nation: An America That Works for All, which argues that if we reduced racial inequalities, we would […]
Report Suggests Citizenship Will Provide Stronger Economic Benefits than Legalization
August 15, 2013 By
The White House released a report on Tuesday listing the economic benefits to earned citizenship for the undocumented immigrants in the US, which included an increase of $1.4 trillion in GDP and about 2 million more jobs. The report also details that over a course of 10 years, providing only legal status and not citizenship […]
US is 5th Largest Spanish-Speaking Country; New Census Interactive Map
August 15, 2013 By
By Claudio Iván Remeseira, @HispanicNewYork /NBCLatino The U.S. Census Bureau released an interactive, online map pinpointing the vast array of non-English languages spoken in homes across the nation. In addition to Spanish, the map shows the national distribution of speakers of Arabic, Chinese, French, French Creole, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. After selecting one […]
Report: Latinos are Most Active Social Media Users
August 9, 2013 By
A new Pew Research report found that Latinos top everyone in social media being the most active and the most influential – specifically to the future of mobile advertisers, web-sites, and apps. According to the report, 80% of Latinos in the U.S. use social media, that’s more than 70% of whites and 75% of African […]
Latino Food Purchases Most Influenced By Family, Emotional Values
August 8, 2013 By
By Hope Gillette, Saludify While acculturation may have a significant impact on the diet of the millions of Hispanics in the country, data from The Multi-Cultural Latino Consumer study indicates the family experience is still what drives most of the Latino food purchases and choices. According to the data, though the Latino population in the U.S. is diverse, […]
Childhood Obesity Still Prevalent in Latino Children
August 7, 2013 By
A new Centers for Disease Control report found that childhood obesity rates in low-income families have declined, but Latino families continue to have some of the largest childhood obesity rates in the U.S. According to the report, more than 39 percent of Latino children aged 2-to-19, are overweight or obese compared to 32 percent of […]
Latinas are Significant Contributors to Mainstream America
August 6, 2013 By
A new Nielsen report found that the growing number of Latinas is significantly swaying the educational, economic and cultural well-being of not only their own race, but of the American society and the consumer marketplace. ‘The modern Latina is ‘ambicultural’ with the ability to seamlessly transcend between English and Spanish-language – two cultures – giving […]
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