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 [...]
New report on women in the workforce reinforces need for change in federal policy and business practices
LatinaLista — When Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress released The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation, it officially validated what everyone already knew: For the first time in our history, women now make up half of all workers in the United States. Mothers are now the primary breadwinners–making as much as or more [...]
Senate passes legislation expanding definition of domestic violence
By MELANIE KISER Cronkite News Service PHOENIX — The state Senate passed two bills Monday (March 8) intended to curb abuse in family and intimate relationships by expanding the list of crimes that qualify as domestic violence. SB 1087, which passed 20-8, would add homicide, manslaughter, animal cruelty and sexual assault to the list of [...]
Tea Party and NumbersUSA strategize on defaming Mexican women and Latino immigrants to foil immigration reform
LatinaLista — It’s been no secret that all who sympathize with undocumented immigrants and are tired of waiting for Congress to tackle immigration reform are planning to descend on Washington DC on March 21 for what is billed as We March for America!. People — immigration reform activists, students, families, labor unions, business leaders, religious [...]
Mexican-American seniors at high risk for glaucoma
LatinaLista — This week is being globally recognized as World Glaucoma Week. Called the “silent disease,” glaucoma affects almost 70 million people worldwide and 2.2 million in the United States. Of that U.S. population, Mexican-Americans over age 60 are at a higher risk for contracting the disease and eventually losing their eyesight. Why? For one [...]
Comprehensive Immigration Reform needed now to stop suffering of undocumented women and their families
LatinaLista — Today is International Women’s Day, a day that celebrates the strides women have made and the hardships they still endure. When we think of those hardships, those of us who are middle-class, college-educated or have good jobs, tend to think of the women in third-world countries or countries where men and women are [...]
