Category: Life Issues
Forecasting Border-Crossers’ Deaths is Easier than Preventing Them
LatinaLista — By now, pretty much everyone agrees that Global Warming is a fact and not some left-wing, liberal propaganda story. Global Warming temperature changes (Source: nasa.gov) Winters are getting colder, spring weather brings more violent showers and we know, global warming or not, summer is a killer with its high temperatures. In fact, summer [...]
The Time of the Latina is Arriving
LatinaLista — In only three years, by 2010, more than 40% of the US workforce will reach retirement age. What does that mean for Latinas? Well, according to a HispanicBusiness
Student Volunteer Study Illustrates How Institutionalized Discrimination Thrives in School Systems
LatinaLista — It’s a rather ironic situation: When it comes to family and friends, the majority of Latino teens don’t think twice about lending a hand. Yet, according to a new federal study by the Corporation for National & Community Service, if it involves doing volunteer work for a stranger, there doesn’t seem to be [...]
Immigrant Mom in Sanctuary Goes on Hunger Strike
LatinaLista — There are over 3 million children who are caught squarely in the middle of this immigration debate. These children are U.S. citizens but at least one of their parents is not. Saul Arrellano is one of these children. Saulito’s mother is Elvira who is fighting with every ounce of her petite physique to [...]
Is ICE Doing the Will of the Administration? If so, More Hard Questions Need to be Asked
LatinaLista — With each and every abuse of power that has come to light under this Administration, it’s no stretch of the imagination to think that ICE, otherwise known as Immigration Customs and Enforcement, may not be enforcing their duties as they should. In fact, from reports coming from within immigrant detention facilities, we have [...]
Is a Latina Less Latina if She Doesn’t Speak Spanish Fluently?
LatinaLista — For evolving reasons, Spanish proficiency in this country has boiled down to that old saying “You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.” What am I referring to? Well, in the first case, it seems that the nation’s top Latin music chain, Ritmo Latino, has banned J.Lo from its stores’ racks. [...]
Latino School Teacher Makes it His Mission to Remind the Next Generation About Cesar Chavez
LatinaLista — Though there aren’t many Latino leaders in Washington to emulate these days, it’s time to remember one man who is not only worth remembering and emulating — but celebrating. Cesar Chavez (Source: americaslibrary.gov) I’m talking about Cesar Chavez — the first Latino and labor leader who has been honored with an official public [...]
Immigration System isn’t Broken when it comes to Children. It Never was Any Good
LatinaLista — It’s been said so much that it now sounds like a cliche: U.S. immigration is a broken system. Yet, for it to be broken means that it had to have worked at one time, which would mean that at one time it was a good system, or at least got the job done. [...]
Today’s Undocumented Students Could Hold the Key to Impending Economic Crisis in 2012
LatinaLista — A new report released today by the Boston College Center on Aging and Work warns the country that today’s strong economy is in for a very rude awakening by 2012. Why? Because of a changing workforce demographic. Today’s Baby Boomers are getting near retirement age and there won’t be anyone with the same [...]
Can Young Latinas Get the Message About Healthy Relationships From a Comic Book?
LatinaLista — Babies having babies. It’s a thought that runs through everyone’s minds when they see a young teenage girl pregnant. It’s common knowledge that the majority of these “babies having babies” are young Latinas. In the state of Virginia alone, the Latina teen birth rate increased 50% between 1990 and 2003 as reported by [...]
