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      	  <title> Why pay equity matters to Latina women 
 
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          <description><![CDATA[ In illustrating the gap between men’s and women’s wages, data show that women still earn 77 cents to every dollar a man earns. This gender-based wage gap stubbornly remains despite the passage of the Equal Pay Act in 1963 and a variety of legislation prohibiting employment discrimination.
The wage]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2387/why-pay-equity-matters-to-latina-women]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Banking on the poor

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          <description><![CDATA[ What’s a fair interest rate to pay on a loan? If you think a 300 percent annual percentage rate (APR) is no big deal, you can stop reading. But if you’d be outraged to learn that some of the country’s biggest banks — like Wells Fargo, Regions , US Bank, and Fifth Third — charge exorbitant]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2385/banking-on-the-poor]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Improving our partnership with Latin Am&amp;#233;rica
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          <description><![CDATA[ Last week, I was proud to visit M&#233;xico for the fourth time as president and to meet with Central American leaders in Costa Rica. It was a chance for me to reaffirm our friendship with a region to which tens of millions of immigrants and Americans trace their roots.
It was also an opportunity to]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2382/improving-our-partnership-with-latin-am-amp-233-rica]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Victims of foreclosure fraud can’t cash checks

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          <description><![CDATA[ Could federal regulators and their cast of private contractors possibly do a worse job of getting relief to families who were wronged during the foreclosure crisis? 
First, private contractors botched their initial review of banks’ foreclosure files. Then, the Office of the Comptroller of the]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2372/victims-of-foreclosure-fraud-can-t-cash-checks]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Foreclosure review payment agreement underway
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          <description><![CDATA[ Rust Consulting, as the Paying Agent for the Independent Foreclosure Review Payment Agreement, has began distributing payments to borrowers on April 12, approximately 1.4 million payments were sent.
Some early payment recipients were told that their checks could not be cashed due to insufficient]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2367/foreclosure-review-payment-agreement-underway]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Foreclosure review payment agreement underway
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          <description><![CDATA[ Rust Consulting, as the Paying Agent for the Independent Foreclosure Review Payment Agreement, has begun distributing payments to borrowers.  On Friday, April 12, approximately 1.4 million payments were sent.
Some early payment recipients were told that their checks could not be cashed due to]]></description> 
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      	  <title> A plateful of justice
 
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          <description><![CDATA[ When my father immigrated to the United States from Mexico in the mid-1980s, his first job was washing dishes at a Furr’s Fresh Buffet restaurant in New Mexico. It paid the state-mandated minimum wage of $2.90 per hour.
My father sent a portion of his scant earnings back to his parents and younger]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2346/a-plateful-of-justice]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Stranded on the wrong side of digital divide
 
 
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          <description><![CDATA[ A major national campaign was launched recently to bridge the digital divide. Everyone On is the public service arm of Connect2Compete (C2C), a national public-private partnership that hopes to provide Internet access, digital literacy training and refurbished computers to low-income consumers.]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2344/stranded-on-the-wrong-side-of-digital-divide]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Why Obama must meet the GOP lies directly
 
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          <description><![CDATA[ The White House apparently believes the best way to strengthen its hand in the upcoming “sequester” showdown with Republicans is to tell Americans how awful the spending cuts will be, and blame Republicans for them.
It won’t work. These tactical messages are getting in the way of the larger truth,]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2305/why-obama-must-meet-the-gop-lies-directly]]></link> 
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      	  <title> The meaning of a decent society

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          <description><![CDATA[ Raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 should be a no-brainer. Republicans say it will cause employers to shed jobs, but that’s baloney. Employers won’t outsource the jobs abroad or substitute machines for them because jobs at this low level of pay are all in the local personal service sector]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2297/the-meaning-of-a-decent-society]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Beginnings and endings: My journey 
 
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          <description><![CDATA[ It has been an honor to be your Secretary of Labor. As I prepared to say farewell, I decided that I wanted to share my experience through journeys, and through beginnings and endings, because that reflects what’s in my mind, and more importantly, what is in my heart at this present]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2293/beginnings-and-endings-my-journey]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Push to protect families, stop budget cuts

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          <description><![CDATA[ Emphasizing the ongoing unemployment crisis and dwindling resources for vital programs that serve Latino children and families we commend President Obama’s call in the State of the Union address to stop the automatic budget cuts that are scheduled to take effect on March 1, 2013.  
Preventing more]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2292/push-to-protect-families-stop-budget-cuts]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Wage theft across borders
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          <description><![CDATA[ As discussion mounted over the issue of an expanded guestworker system in an immigration reform package, a company connected to former Secretary of State Colin Powell found itself in hot water in connection with the employment of Mexican workers in the U.S.
U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2290/wage-theft-across-borders]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Immigration reform won’t increase government spending

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          <description><![CDATA[ Just days after a bipartisan group of Senators released a set of principles to reform the immigration system with a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s 11 million undocumented residents, House Republicans convened a hearing to consider the benefits of immigration reform. The stacked witness list]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2286/immigration-reform-won-t-increase-government-spending]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Foundation, nonprofits launch MyFreeTaxes 
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          <description><![CDATA[ The Walmart Foundation donated $4.16 million to Goodwill Industries International, National Disability Institute and United Way Worldwide in support of the MyFreeTaxes Partnership, offering free federal and state tax preparation and filing services both online and in person to eligible Americans]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2278/foundation-nonprofits-launch-myfreetaxes]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Filling Solis’s shoes wont be easy

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          <description><![CDATA[ As President Barack Obama’s second term begins, change is coming. Change to his cabinet, that is. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis is the latest of the administration’s leaders to announce her resignation. Obama’s cabinet was already becoming more male and pale. With Solis, the first Latina to hold a]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2262/filling-solis-s-shoes-wont-be-easy]]></link> 
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      	  <title> NFCC launches Spanish language financial resource
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          <description><![CDATA[ The National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) recently announced the expansion of MyMoneyCheckUp, the NFCC’s free innovative online financial resource tool for consumers. The tool is now available in Spanish at miayudafinanciera.org and DebtAdvice.org, bringing Spanish speaking populations]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2259/nfcc-launches-spanish-language-financial-resource]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Vice President joins CHCI swearing-in ceremony 
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          <description><![CDATA[ In an historic night for the Latino community, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), the nation's premier Latino youth leadership development and educational organization, welcomed the Hispanic members of the 113th Congress at a ceremonial swearing-in recently in the East Hall at Union]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2251/vice-president-joins-chci-swearing-in-ceremony]]></link> 
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      	  <title> The great American hoax of 'entitlement' reform

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          <description><![CDATA[ It has become accepted economic wisdom, uttered with deadpan certainty by policy pundits and budget scolds on both sides of the aisle, that the only way to get control over America’s looming deficits is to “reform entitlements.” But the accepted wisdom is wrong. 
Start with the statistics]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2244/the-great-american-hoax-of-entitlement-reform]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Stand up for seniors who rely on Medicare

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          <description><![CDATA[ Editor’s Note: Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Ra&#250;l M. Grijalva (D-AZ) and Keith Ellison (D-MN) released the following statement recently on Republican proposals to cut Medicare benefits for seniors: 
We stand with the American people to oppose recent proposals to cut Medicare]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2223/stand-up-for-seniors-who-rely-on-medicare]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Am&amp;#233;rica’s widening inequality must be reversed

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          <description><![CDATA[ I keep hearing that the billionaires and big corporations that poured all that money into the 2012 election learned their lesson. They lost their shirts and won’t do it again.
Don’t believe that for an instant.
It’s true their political investments didn’t exactly pay off this time around.
“Right]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2220/am-amp-233-rica-s-widening-inequality-must-be-reversed]]></link> 
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      	  <title> The anti-thesis to segregation: Raza Studies now!
By Roberto “Dr. Cintli” Rodr&amp;#237;guez
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          <description><![CDATA[ I will say it again: Arizona continues to be a distraction, though it is undeniable that it is indeed the epicenter of ignorance, a laboratory for hate legislation and a mecca for the private prison industry. Yet, as a distraction, it continues to permit people to ignore their own backyards.
Most]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2218/the-anti-thesis-to-segregation-raza-studies-now-by-roberto]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Baby Boomers: New era of entrepreneurs? 

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          <description><![CDATA[ As the Baby Boomer generation continues to live longer and in better physical and mental health - then even they had anticipated, they are now faced with the realistic dilemma of financing their future. Prior to recent years the answer to this dilemma was simply for them to remain in the workplace]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2217/baby-boomers-new-era-of-entrepreneurs]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Deadline for homeowners seeking foreclosure reviews
 
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          <description><![CDATA[ Well over 4 million homeowners affected by the foreclosure crisis are eligible for an independent review of their cases – but only a small percentage of them have requested one through a recently available federal program, and the deadline to do so is looming. The deadline to request a review is]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2213/deadline-for-homeowners-seeking-foreclosure-reviews]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Give families a sense of security

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          <description><![CDATA[ Editor’s Note: In his weekly address on December 1st, President Obama spoke about the urgent need to pass the middle class tax cuts, which will give families and businesses preparing for the holidays the certainty they need going into the New Year.  
I’m here on the factory floor of a business in]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2210/give-families-a-sense-of-security]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Company pays nearly $40,000 in back wages
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          <description><![CDATA[ Colorado Precision Machining Inc. has paid a total of $39,082 in back wages and liquidated damages to 10 machinists, following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division that found violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage, overtime and record-keeping]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2198/company-pays-nearly-40-000-in-back-wages]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Two million unemployed could lose benefits

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          <description><![CDATA[ At the end of the year, nearly 2 million unemployed workers are scheduled to lose their unemployment benefits—followed shortly thereafter by another 900,000 who will lose benefits in the first three months of 2013. If Congress does not take action to prevent this, its failure to do so will be]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2194/two-million-unemployed-could-lose-benefits]]></link> 
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      	  <title> State jobs gains on the rise in 2012
 
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          <description><![CDATA[ The continuing U.S. economic recovery from the Great Recession, powered first by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and then by a variety of measures taken by the Obama administration, is rapidly translating into clear jobs gains in states across our nation.
First the national]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2191/state-jobs-gains-on-the-rise-in-2012]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Government help small bussiness</title> 
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      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2184/government-help-small-bussiness]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Helping make homeowners a priority
By President Barack Obama
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          <description><![CDATA[  
In recent weeks, you might have noticed something. Or maybe even heard the sound of it if you live close enough. New homes are going up. In fact, construction workers are breaking ground on new homes in Am&#233;rica at the fastest pace in more than four years. 
At the same time, more homes are being]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2170/helping-make-homeowners-a-priority-by-president-barack-obama]]></link> 
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      	  <title> GOP: Failing the central test of electability

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          <description><![CDATA[ Unemployment is still above 8 percent, job gains aren’t even keeping up with population growth, the economy is barely moving forward. And yet, according to most polls, the Romney-Ryan ticket is falling further and further behind. How can this be?
Because Republicans are failing the central test of]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2148/gop-failing-the-central-test-of-electability]]></link> 
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      	  <title> President’s agenda on the Hispanic community

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          <description><![CDATA[ Recently, I had the pleasure of participating in a policy conversation held at the Center for American Progress on ensuring that the ladder of opportunity remains strong for the Latino community. In conjunction with that event we released a report, “An America Built to Last: President Obama’s Agenda]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2107/president-s-agenda-on-the-hispanic-community]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Presidential Candidates: It’s time to talk about housing

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          <description><![CDATA[ The ongoing housing crisis remains one of the biggest drags on our economic recovery. But less than three months before a presidential election viewed by many as a referendum on the economy, housing is little more than a side conversation on the campaign trail.
President Barack Obama has barely]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2104/presidential-candidates-it-s-time-to-talk-about-housing]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Ryan: A nightmare for the poor and minorities

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          <description><![CDATA[ In an apparent off the cuff remark, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan gushed that he thought it was a “cool thing” that an African-American was president. But Ryan’s rapture with President Obama didn’t last past the first sentence. In the next breath he quickly added that he didn’t like much else about]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2103/ryan-a-nightmare-for-the-poor-and-minorities]]></link> 
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      	  <title> House Republicans are impeding job growth

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          <description><![CDATA[ It's time for summer vacation, but Congress is leaving town having not passed legislation to address our key economic problem: jobs. Even with the headwinds from Europe and the intransigence of House leadership, the economy has added jobs for 29 straight months, and this month was stronger with the]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2097/house-republicans-are-impeding-job-growth]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Nutrition assistance cuts to kids?

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          <description><![CDATA[ Far too many eligible Latino children are going hungry without nutritional assistance, and the Roby amendment would make an already terrible situation significantly worse.
The House version of the Farm Bill includes more than $16 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2090/nutrition-assistance-cuts-to-kids]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Why states should participate in Medicaid expansion
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          <description><![CDATA[  The Affordable Care Act will expand health care coverage to millions of Americans. Among other key provisions, it ends discrimination against those with pre-existing conditions, allows young adults to stay on their parents’ plans until age 26, provides subsidies to make coverage more affordable,]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2070/why-states-should-participate-in-medicaid-expansion]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Everything you need to know about insourcing

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          <description><![CDATA[ What is insourcing? 
After decades of watching American companies take jobs to other countries, we're beginning to see entrepreneurs and manufactures make the decision to keep factories and production facilities here in the United States—or even bring jobs back to the U.S. from overseas.
How do we]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2068/everything-you-need-to-know-about-insourcing]]></link> 
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      	  <title> 7 states have denied Medicaid coverage to millions

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          <description><![CDATA[ In the Supreme Court’s recent decision upholding the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, an important question before the Court was whether it was coercive for the federal government to threaten to withhold current federal funding for Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2065/7-states-have-denied-medicaid-coverage-to-millions]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Latinos benefiting from Affordable Care Act</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Obama for Am&#233;rica released a report last week detailing how Latinos are already benefitting from the President's landmark health reforms and an online tool that helps Spanish speakers calculate the benefits they will receive under the Affordable Care Act. The report and health care calculator were]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/2032/latinos-benefiting-from-affordable-care-act]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Grandparents relieve the foster care system</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ An accident landed seven of Rosie Cardenas’ grandchildren on her doorstep -- and she hasn’t looked back since.
Along with her husband, Jerry, Cardenas raised them when their daughter, a single mother, was seriously injured in a car accident. The Cardenases determined their daughter was unable to]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1948/grandparents-relieve-the-foster-care-system]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Health coverage crucial to Latino grandparent caregiver</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Researchers liken health coverage for grandparent caregivers to oxygen masks in an airplane. How can they look after the children when they’re not taking care of themselves?
Yet, like so many grandparents, Maria Olvera, 51, neglected her health because she was caught between job obligations and]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1951/health-coverage-crucial-to-latino-grandparent-caregiver]]></link> 
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      	  <title> A closer look at the costs of E-Verify</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ This infographic explains the costs of E-Verify, the government’s Internet-based work authorization system. It highlights the system’s known costs, such as lost tax revenue and monetary burdens on small businesses, and estimates the costs of additional fiscal burdens—to individuals verified through]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1939/a-closer-look-at-the-costs-of-e-verify]]></link> 
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      	  <title> S-COMM: Wrong for nation, wrong for Colorado</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Last week, the Denver Post published a story addressing the Secure Communities program in relation to the Denver Mayoral race. The data released regarding the program showed an alarming pattern of disproportionate impact, which has led the State of Illinois to rescind its memorandum of agreement.]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1925/s-comm-wrong-for-nation-wrong-for-colorado]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Latinos who rely on Social Security feel threatened by cuts</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Current proposals to change Social Security threaten to reduce the modest benefits that Latino senior citizens across the country rely on for nearly their entire livelihood. This was the message delivered recently at a town hall in Philadelphia that launched the Latinos and Social Security, ¡Tu]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1915/latinos-who-rely-on-social-security-feel-threatened-by-cuts]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Call for investigation into questionable ICE practices</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ On April 22, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA-16) asked that federal immigration officials be investigated, claiming that they misled local officials about whether counties and states had the right to opt out of the Secure Communities program.  
According to the LA Times, a number of local jurisdictions have]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1905/call-for-investigation-into-questionable-ice-practices]]></link> 
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Only way to fix immigration is through Congress 
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          <description><![CDATA[ In a meeting in the State Dining Room on April 19th, President Obama and members of his Cabinet and senior staff met with a broad group of business, law enforcement, faith, and former and current elected leaders from across the political spectrum to hear their ideas and suggestions on how to tackle]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1901/only-way-to-fix-immigration-is-through-congress]]></link> 
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      	  <title> The importance of unions for workers of color</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Unions bolster opportunities for all workers in our country. They encourage political participation and offer access to the middle class, as a recent report from the Center for American Progress Action Fund explains. But unions and their benefits are especially important for communities of color,]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1890/the-importance-of-unions-for-workers-of-color]]></link> 
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      	  <title> UFW History: The Rise of the United Farm Workers</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ For more than a century, farmworkers had been denied a decent life in the fields and communities of California's agricultural valleys. Essential to the state's biggest industry, but only so long as they remained exploited and submissive farmworkers had tried but failed so many times to organize the]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1877/ufw-history-the-rise-of-the-united-farm-workers]]></link> 
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      	  <title> HUD Report: Low-income renters suffering</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently released its biannual report to Congress on the housing needs of low income Americans.
It shows an increased number of very low-income households have severe housing difficulties, particularly housing costs that far exceed what they can]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1871/hud-report-low-income-renters-suffering]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Nationwide effort to silence working people</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ All eyes are trained on Wisconsin, but corporate-backed politicians are clearly gunning for working people in every state across the country.
In a brazen new low, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is on track to sign a new law under the guise of fiscal responsibility that will allow him to appoint]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1869/nationwide-effort-to-silence-working-people]]></link> 
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      	  <title> The high costs of immigration enforcement </title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ A handful of communities across the country have attempted to and in many cases successfully enacted a series of immigration controls that stoke fear in Latino and immigrant communities. But a report from the Center for American Progress found that these communities spend millions of dollars]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1866/the-high-costs-of-immigration-enforcement]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Dangerous Precedent</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Madison, Wisconsin to denounce a bill that would reverse gains unions have achieved for workers over decades.  The bill proposed by Governor Scott Walker seeks to address a 137 million budget shortfall by requiring state workers to increase their]]></description> 
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      	  <title> Important role the Latino community</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Denver’s former Mayor, Federico Pe&#241;a, along with 14 other Latino leaders from across the nation, met with President Obama
in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, to discuss a broad range of issues important to the Hispanic community and all Americans. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, Secretary of]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1859/important-role-the-latino-community]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Latin Am&amp;#233;rica divided over ties with China</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ “We do not want to be China’s next Africa,” Neil D&#225;vila, head of ProM&#233;xico, M&#233;xico’s federal agency to promote foreign commerce and investments, is quoted as saying in a diplomatic cable released by the whistleblower website Wikileaks. “We [Mexicans] need to be owners of our own]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1851/latin-am-amp-233-rica-divided-over-ties-with-china]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Devastating effect of repeal for Latinos</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Rep. Xavier Becerra, Dr. Elena R&#237;os National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA), and a beneficiary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) held a press conference this week to discuss the adverse affects the Republican repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would have on Latinos.
Rather than focusing on]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1843/devastating-effect-of-repeal-for-latinos]]></link> 
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      	  <title> IRS Free File</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ IRS Free File opens today, Jan. 14, to start its ninth year of helping make taxes a little less taxing.
Everyone can use Free File, the free way to prepare and e-file federal taxes either through brand-name software or online fillable forms. Individuals or families with 2010 adjusted gross incomes]]></description> 
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      	  <title> A mixed year for Latinos across the US</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Overall, 2010 was a tough year for Latinos. While it brought many hardships, there was also some hopeful news.
The U.S. economy has stabilized over the last 12 months in the aftermath of the Great Recession. 
Nevertheless, millions of jobs lost over the past two years have not returned. This is]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1835/a-mixed-year-for-latinos-across-the-us]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Confirmed!</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ After virtually a two-year process, attorney Bill Martinez was confirmed on Tuesday (Dec. 21) to the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.  The vacancy Mart&#237;nez will fill is one of two on the District Court for Colorado, both of which are rated as judicial emergencies by the]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1831/confirmed]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Construction: ‘What’s happening is unprecedented’</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ The day David Mart&#237;nez found himself living in a car with his wife and infant daughter, storing the child’s milk in a small cooler with ice and asking local churches for food, he experienced a shame so deep that the remembrance of it still causes him to choke up.
"The worst thing was seeing my]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1828/construction-what-s-happening-is-unprecedented]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Sec. Solis seeks migrant worker partnerships</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis recently met with Ambassadors from Central American and Caribbean countries to begin conversations about partnerships to keep workers safe and protect their rights under federal labor laws. She was joined by Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan, who described that]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1825/sec-solis-seeks-migrant-worker-partnerships]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Call for Latinos to vote for respect on November 2nd 
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          <description><![CDATA[ At a press conference last week, a coalition of national Latino organizations issued an urgent call to Latino voters—who are likely to be key factors in several highly contested elections across the nation—to participate in the upcoming midterm election.  
“We are urging Latino voters to take a]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1805/call-for-latinos-to-vote-for-respect-on-november-2nd]]></link> 
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      	  <title> New poll highlights Latino voter influences</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ As Congress breaks and the 2010 campaigns heat up, political observers are wondering how the immigration debate in Washington, DC and across the country will impact the mid-term elections.  Tracking polling by Latino Decisions is showing small but clear movement toward the Democrats, in the wake of]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1795/new-poll-highlights-latino-voter-influences]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Eliseo Medina: New challenge</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Recently, Eliseo Medina was unanimously elected as International Secretary-Treasurer of the 2.2 million-member Service Employees International Union.  Medina is the first Latino to serve in the position.
"Forty-five years ago tomorrow, I walked in to a church as a 19 year-old grape picker having no]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1786/eliseo-medina-new-challenge]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Support for Military Homeowners</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ At an event last week at the Pentagon, Fannie Mae  and the U.S. Army announced new initiatives to help service members who are struggling with their mortgage payments avoid foreclosure.  The effort includes a mortgage payment forbearance of up to six months where the death or injury of a service]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1785/support-for-military-homeowners]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Latino heritage: A source of pride</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Editor’s Note: U.S Department of Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis led a Presidential delegation to attend the Bicentennial of M&#233;xico last week. She along with guests, attended a number of cultural events and meet with M&#233;xico’s President Felipe Calder&#243;n.  As part of her visit she recorded  “diary” of]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1780/latino-heritage-a-source-of-pride]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Where else can they survive?</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Some days the only people she serves are wayward journalists and well meaning volunteers come down to south Louisiana after the nations worst oil spill. Some days not even the journalists or volunteers come. The locals have long since abandoned her restaurant.
In the early afternoon Lois Salinas,]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1773/where-else-can-they-survive]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Katrina pain index: Five years later</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ It was five years since Katrina on August 29. The impact of Katrina is quite painful for regular people in the area. This article looks at what has happened since Katrina not from the perspective of the higher ups looking down from their offices but from the street level view of the people — a view]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1772/katrina-pain-index-five-years-later]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Secure Communities: ‘Governor has choice to make’</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Last week, representatives of victims, law enforcement officers, human rights, and immigrant rights groups held a telephonic press briefing addressing their concerns with the implementation of the Secure Communities program in Colorado.
Perhaps the most hard-hitting testimony came from Jasmine, a]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1770/secure-communities-governor-has-choice-to-make]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Health care repeal will cost small business</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Conservatives’ efforts to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would have dire consequences for small business owners and their employees. That’s because small businesses are big beneficiaries of health care reforms that will help make health coverage more affordable, thus]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1765/health-care-repeal-will-cost-small-business]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Why the broadband debate matters for you</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ So what’s the big deal with Google, anyway? Broadband and Internet regulation have been in the news a lot—and activists converged on the company’s headquarters recently to protest its recent proposal with Verizon. There are a lot of big, techy words in this debate and it can get hard to follow. So]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1761/why-the-broadband-debate-matters-for-you]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Immigration lighting fire under Latino voters</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ A new summary of recent Latino voter polls highlights the way the immigration debate is influencing Latino political engagement in the run-up to the November mid-terms.  The lack of action on comprehensive immigration could dampen enthusiasm among Latino voters at a crucial time.  According to an]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1757/immigration-lighting-fire-under-latino-voters]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Resource to educate struggling homeowners</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Fannie Mae recently announced the launch of KnowYourOptions.com, a new consumer education Web site that outlines the choices available to homeowners who are struggling with their mortgage payments, and provides guidance on how they can contact and work with their mortgage company to find solutions.]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1753/resource-to-educate-struggling-homeowners]]></link> 
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      	  <title> $79 million in grants for housing counseling</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that $79 million is available for a broad range of housing counseling programs to help families find and preserve housing.  The available funding is an increase of $21 million, or 27 percent, over last year.  These grants will be awarded]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1748/79-million-in-grants-for-housing-counseling]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Federal Reserve hears homeowners woes</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ After sitting through two hours of testimony at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, plumber Carlos Moreno can barely contain his anger.
In January, he lost his home in Menlo Park to foreclosure, after his adjustable rate mortgage reset, and his monthly payments increased by more than $1,000]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1747/federal-reserve-hears-homeowners-woes]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Green jobs put Am&amp;#233;rica on a path to stability, growth</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ The harsh realities of the BP oil disaster and ongoing unemployment from our national recession are driving an important conversation in Washington about our addiction to oil and the promise of a clean and green future. Simply put, this disaster must result in directing our nation toward policies]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1741/green-jobs-put-am-amp-233-rica-on-a-path-to-stability-growth]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Immigration Reform:‘Suing Arizona isn’t enough’</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Jorge Ramos says that as long as Barack Obama fails to keep his promise to pass comprehensive immigration reform, Ramos will continue to remind him about it at every opportunity.
Ramos—the journalist, author and host of Noticiero Univisi&#243;n— said that Latinos are plagued by “disillusionment,]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1740/immigration-reform-suing-arizona-isn-t-enough]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Work-share program assists workers, employers</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ "Would you share your hours with co-workers to avoid layoffs?" asked Rich
Jones, director of policy and research at the Bell Policy Center. "Its
a relevant question since Gov. Bill Ritter recently signed a work-share
bill into law. Since the law is new there are a lot of questions about
what it]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1731/work-share-program-assists-workers-employers]]></link> 
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      	  <title> Voters overwhelmingly favor humane solution</title> 
          <description><![CDATA[ Leading public opinion researchers Drew Westen and Celinda Lake participated in telephonic press conference this week to analyze public opinion related to Arizona's controversial immigration law.  
With the Department of Justice announcing its lawsuit against the Arizona law, which followed a major]]></description> 
      	  <link><![CDATA[http://elsemanario.net/news/1726/voters-overwhelmingly-favor-humane-solution]]></link> 
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