Focus in budget debates shouldn’t be cuts
The majority of registered Latino voters in three key swing states believe high-income individuals and corporations should be paying more toward reducing the federal deficit, according to a new survey released recently by National Council of La Raza (NCLR).
NCLR recently conducted an informal su.... |
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Consumers beware: Economic storm clouds ahead
Economic forecasters exist to make astrologers look good. But the recent jubilance is enough to make even weather forecasters blush. “Just look at the bull market! Look at home prices! Look at consumer confidence!”
Please.
I can understand the jubilation in the narrow sense that we’ve been down .... |
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First Latino business leaders’ forum at White House
Last week, the White House convened the nation’s top Latino business leaders from across the country for the first-ever White House Hispanic Business Leaders’ Forum. Over 80 leaders from a range of industries participated in the day-long interactive event, which included panels and break-out sessi.... |
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Language interpretation crucial for Social Security
As advocates for elders and people with disabilities anticipate President Obama’s choice of a new Social Security Commissioner, a group of us from the Strengthening Social Security Coalition presented our recommendations at a briefing on Capitol Hill last week calling for changes to improve the So.... |
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Why pay equity matters to Latina women
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 wag.... |
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Banking on the poor
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 triple-d.... |
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Improving our partnership with Latin América
Last week, I was proud to visit México 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 h.... |
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Victims of foreclosure fraud can’t cash checks
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 Cur.... |
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Foreclosure review payment agreement underway
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 .... |
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Foreclosure review payment agreement underway
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 ins.... |
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A plateful of justice
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 younge.... |
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Stranded on the wrong side of digital divide
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.
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Why Obama must meet the GOP lies directly
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.... |
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The meaning of a decent society
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 (.... |
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Beginnings and endings: My journey
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 moment.
Thirty.... |
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