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Health coverage crucial to Latino grandparent caregiver
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 t.... |
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A closer look at the costs of E-Verify
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 throug.... |
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S-COMM: Wrong for nation, wrong for Colorado
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. .... |
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Latinos who rely on Social Security feel threatened by cuts
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 Fu.... |
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Call for investigation into questionable ICE practices
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.... |
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Only way to fix immigration is through Congress
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 tackl.... |
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The importance of unions for workers of color
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, .... |
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UFW History: The Rise of the United Farm Workers
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 th.... |
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HUD Report: Low-income renters suffering
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 ca.... |
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Nationwide effort to silence working people
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 em.... |
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The high costs of immigration enforcement
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 defen.... |
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Dangerous Precedent
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 contri.... |
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Important role the Latino community
Denver’s former Mayor, Federico Peña, 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 o.... |
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Latin América divided over ties with China
“We do not want to be China’s next Africa,” Neil Dávila, head of ProMéxico, México’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 development.”̷.... |
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Devastating effect of repeal for Latinos
Rep. Xavier Becerra, Dr. Elena Ríos 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 .... |
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