Category: Life Issues
Latina Cubicle Confidential™ — Do You Know What You’re Worth to Your Employer?
By Dr. Maria G. Hernandez Latina Cubicle Confidential™ In the next two years, the US Latino population will top 50 million and our purchasing power will exceed $1 Trillion. Just to put that in perspective, there are more Spanish-speaking people in the US than all the residents of Canada. This is the largest economic power [...]
Helping Latino and low-income students take it step-by-step towards their “BigFuture”
LatinaLista — It’s reported that Latino students receive an average amount of financial aid totaling $7,900 — less than African Americans, Asians or Caucasians. At a time when the importance of higher education is made clear every day as news of how industries are either disappearing or reinventing themselves in a struggling economy, every student [...]
New study highlights reason why blacks, Latinos, Asians may look “all alike” to non-minorities
LatinaLista — Since 2001, Texas’ Dallas County has exonerated 32 men who were wrongfully convicted and sentenced to jail for crimes they didn’t commit. The latest two to receive an apology from the court were Raymond Jackson and James Williams who were convicted of kidnapping, raping and shooting a woman in 1983. Their conviction was [...]
Latina teens still a big part of the national conversation on The National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
LatinaLista — Today marks the 11th annual observance of The National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. Though the most recent data shows that the U.S. teen pregnancy rate is now at a nearly 40-year low, it’s still higher than other developed countries and too many young Latinas are still becoming mothers before their time. The [...]
First national conference promotes inclusion of Latinos and African Americans in biomedical industry
LatinaLista — The biomedical industry is one of the most important industries in the nation. It’s a field tasked with what is a national priority for any country — keeping people healthy. In a nutshell, the biomedical industry develops products for the prevention, treatment, and cure of human diseases. A mix of science fiction, detective [...]
Latina Cubicle Confidential™– What Does YOUR Personal Brand Say About You?
By Dr. Maria G. Hernandez Latina Cubicle Confidential™ Whether you set out to create it or not, you have a personal brand! It is just as powerful as the branding associated with the kind of car you drive, the make-up you buy or your favorite beverage. When I talk about personal brands at workshops, I [...]
Latina blogger launches bilingual e-book detailing “A Simple Start to Blogging with Social Media”
LatinaLista — In 2004, when I created Latina Lista, blogs were the epitome of social media. For the first time, people could share what was happening in their lives, what they thought about politics, give their professional insights, speak out against injustice or just recount what they ate for lunch that day. Back then, I [...]
Nationwide civics survey finds 85 percent of Americans don’t know meaning of “rule of law”
LatinaLista — The one line of defense critics use to denounce issues like the DREAM Act or in-state tuition for undocumented students or allowing undocumented parents to stay with their families while their deportation cases are being heard is that the critics are only following the “rule of law.” Yet a revealing new study by [...]
UNICEF report shows teens in the Americas face their share of challenges
LatinaLista — It’s not surprising that the global profile of today’s 1.2 billion adolescents (10-19-years-old) is an uneven one as outlined in the latest report issued by UNICEF titled “Progress for Children: A report card on adolescents.” Regardless of the country, the report clearly shows that young people are being thrust more and more into [...]
Helping young Latinas steer clear of cyberbullying
By Kristina Kenney LatinaLista Many times a child being bullied is like a duck floating along a pond as predators swim below. They struggle to appear calm and unruffled on the surface, but below where no one can see they are paddling like mad, consumed with fear. Bullying is not as rare an occurrence in [...]
