Category: Money
Puerto Rico: Student strike indefinitely closes University of Puerto Rico campus
By Natalia A. Bonilla Berrios LatinaLista SAN JUAN — Pepper gas, pushes and shoves were today´s dawn prescription for campus guards and students at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. What began as a peaceful 48-hour strike became a confrontation between administrative forces and civil resistance at 5:50 a.m. When a [...]
Spotlight Non-profit: One little girl’s needless death inspired a community to create equal access to healthcare
LatinaLista — In 1975, a six-year-old girl named Virginia Garcia cut her foot in Oregon, where the girl’s farmworker family had come from their home in Mission, Texas to harvest the local produce. Speaking little English and having no health insurance, Virginia’s family didn’t immediately take her to the doctor. An infection set in and [...]
Two Anglo journalists seek donations to finish story about life with a MacArthur Park Mexican family
LatinaLista — What happens when two Anglo female journalists move in with a Mexican family living in Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park area? It’s a developing story that these two journalists, Devin Browne and Kara Mears, have titled “The Entryway.” Their hope is that their experiences will intrigue, inspire and invoke public donations so they can [...]
American Express’ Members Project reaches out to Latino causes
LatinaLista — Corporate social responsibility is a trend gaining momentum. The idea of businesses giving back to the community has always existed but, these days, it’s being taken to a new level. For example, last year, Puerto Rico’s Doral Bank collaborated with Susan G. Komen for the Cure and launched the mobile pink mammogram clinic [...]
Actor Edward James Olmos spearheads donations request to help “Stand and Deliver” teacher Jaime Escalante
LatinaLista If we were to name the top five all-time family favorite Latino films, a list might include: La Bamba, Real Women Have Curves, Mi Familia, Selena and — Stand and Deliver. Who could forget the teacher Jaime Escalante, played by Edward James Olmos, who inspired a classroom full of East LA kids to believe [...]
New site provides a wealth of information about credit cards
LatinaLista On Monday, Feb. 22, 2010, the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009, otherwise known as the Credit CARD Act, went into effect. It’s supposed to protect credit card users from such actions as credit card companies suddenly increasing interest rates or changing fee amounts or any action that puts the consumer at risk [...]
Online site aims to break the cycle of financial illiteracy among young Latinos
LatinaLista — Financial literacy is an issue that is increasing in importance among the Latino community as the economy still teeters, jobs are still lost and people are still losing their homes. For too long, Latinos, and those who speak a language other than English, have been considered fair game by unscrupulous credit card and [...]
Housing sub-contractor calls police on undocumented worker who demanded rightful wages
LatinaLista — One of the biggest fears and complaints from those who advocate for undocumented workers is employer exploitation. There are countless stories of unscrupulous employers who knowingly exploit their undocumented workers by not paying them wages owed to them. The most common scenario is that when an undocumented worker starts to complain about the [...]
Unsettled case of Hispanic farmers underscores lack of DC Latino leadership and concern from Obama
LatinaLista After ten years, tomorrow should have been the day of reckoning at the Supreme Court for a group of Hispanic farmers who filed a lawsuit against the USDA for systematically denying them needed loans and credits to sustain their farms, while granting those same loans to white farmers. Though the Supreme Court ruled last [...]
New report shows unemployment rate highest in 25 years for single female households
LatinaLista — The Institute for Women’s Policy Research released a report this week underscoring the inequality of the labor force when it comes to men and women. Aside from pay differences that still exist between the sexes, we now see that even the media tends to focus more on male job losses during this recession [...]
