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Nearly 50 years of Earth Day and at the doorstep of the climate decade: A vision for engagement with U.S. Latinos around climate change

Apr 22, 2019, 6:03 AM 0

By Juan Declet Barreto LatinaLista This year will mark nearly a half-century of the celebration of Earth Day. Enacted in 1970 by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) and Congressman Pete McCloskey – a California Republican, the first Earth Day…

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Young Latina ‘speaks out’ on the importance of including diversity

Apr 4, 2019, 1:20 PM 0

LatinaLista — Many politicians like to invoke the facts that “we are a nation of immigrants” or that our nation was built on the back of immigrants. Either phrase implies that people from all over the world have had…

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What Do We Know About Immigrants with Temporary Protected Status?

Feb 11, 2019, 12:19 PM 0

By Nicole Prchal Svajlenka LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared on the Center for American Progress website.) Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is a little-known program that offers a temporary legal status to certain immigrants in the United…

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New climate initiative ‘heats up’ in Latino communities across the country

Jan 28, 2019, 11:28 AM 0

By Mark Magaña and Dominique Browning LatinaLista It is a myth that Latinos don’t have the time nor interest to care about climate change. The truth is quite the opposite: Latinos have long been leading the fight against dangerous…

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New study finds immigrant students lead the way in pursuit of U.S. STEM careers

Jan 9, 2019, 5:44 PM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista Mathematics is called the universal language. According to the website, Omniglot: There is no universal language we can talk with one another for everyone to understand, however, there is a universal language we can all quantify…

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Even those on a tight budget can make and keep a New Year’s resolution to save

Dec 31, 2018, 9:00 AM 0

By Marisa Treviño LatinaLista A common resolution on everyone’s list of New Year promises to ourselves, alongside ‘exercise more,’ is saving money. With talks of a potential recession looming in this new year, the intention to improve our financial…

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Latinx workers may have a great work ethic but it doesn’t always translate into comfortable living

Dec 5, 2018, 3:50 PM 0

By Danyelle Solomon and Christian E. Weller LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: The following is the summary for an in-depth report by the Center for American Progress on the wealth disparity between whites and Latinx families. Read the full report here.)…

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A midterm election unlike others calls for new rules for electoral analysis

Nov 5, 2018, 1:18 PM 0

by Dr. G.S. Potter LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: The following article originally appeared at StrategyCamp) The November 2018 Midterm Elections will be like no other in modern American history. We need new rules for electoral landscaping and analysis. When…

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Latinx Entrepreneurs and the New Face of Opportunity

Oct 17, 2018, 9:58 AM 0

By Ramona Ortega LatinaLista As we celebrate Hispanic Heritage month across the nation, it is a good time to highlight the cultural and economic contributions of the largest and fastest-growing millennial population in the country. In 2016, 61% of…

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Guest Voz: Did Trump administration get it right blaming court ruling for increase in families arriving at the Southwest Border?

Oct 16, 2018, 9:47 AM 0

By Tom Wong LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared on the Center for American Progress website.) In a recent notice of proposed rulemaking, the Trump administration claimed that the Flores settlement agreement led to an increase in the…

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Guest Voz: A tight Texas Senate race exposes the true meaning of political ‘Hispandering’

Oct 15, 2018, 11:56 AM 0

By Dr. Edward T. Rincón LatinaLista The first debate between Senator Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke was intensive and covered many issues of substance to Texas voters. Interestingly, news coverage of the debate also highlighted the accusation by the…

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Guest Voz: Time for Latinos to give back to our parks on National Public Lands Day 2018

Sep 21, 2018, 9:41 AM 0

By Felipe Benítez LatinaLista September 22 marks the 25th National Public Lands Day, the largest, all-volunteer event focused on restoring America’s public lands. Hundreds of thousands of individuals and volunteer organizations from all across the country team up with…

Latino Politics, zNew Headline

Latest poll shows Latino voters still sleeping when it comes to midterm elections

Sep 5, 2018, 12:01 PM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista The upcoming midterm elections are viewed as a ‘pivotal’ election for the nation. For one side, it’s about protecting the GOP majority and the Trump administration. For the other side, it’s all about displacing the majority…

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Unique online course strives to bring Puerto Rico’s ongoing crisis ‘home’ to students

Aug 29, 2018, 12:54 PM 0

LatinaLista — In the hours after Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, it was obvious, to those islanders accustomed to weathering tropical storms, that this was no ordinary hurricane. In the days and weeks that followed, as federal relief…

Social Justice, zNew Headline

Heartbreaking video of reunited mother trying to hug her toddler. Look what happens.

Aug 28, 2018, 10:11 AM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista Regular readers of Latina Lista have kindly noticed that I’ve been taking a little break. After 14 years of chronicling social injustices, I felt drained, even more so since Trump took office. Like many of you,…

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Trump’s executive order ending immigrant family separation doesn’t address getting current child detainees back to their parents

Jun 20, 2018, 2:08 PM 0

LatinaLista — President Donald Trump signed today, under duress, an executive order to stop separating immigrant families. However, this order does not address reunifying families. The ongoing trauma that detained children are being subjected to needs to end and,…

Politics, zNew Headline

Look at what the White House just released to justify the Trump administration’s own policy of separating immigrant children from their parents

Jun 15, 2018, 2:44 PM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista If there is one real truth about Trump and his White House staff, it’s that they lie. They distort facts, they take things out of context to purposely create a narrative that makes Trump look either…

Guest Voz, zNew Headline

Why People Continue to Flee Violence in Latin American Countries

Jun 1, 2018, 12:21 PM 0

By Silva Mathema ncluido The April arrival of the Central American caravan at the southern U.S. border once again placed the nation’s focus on individuals and families who traveled thousands of miles to seek asylum in the United…

Politics, zNew Headline

New online map shows aspiring Latino politicians which races they could win

May 29, 2018, 4:07 PM 0

LatinaLista — It’s said that the only way to change a culture is to change it from within. What better way than to change the rampant racism and insensitivity towards Latinos in U.S. politics than to get more Latinos…

Guest Voz, Politics, zNew Headline

Why Lupe Valdez’s quest to be Texas’ first Latina governor isn’t a long shot anymore

May 24, 2018, 4:51 PM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista The odds of Lupe Valdez becoming the first Latina governor of Texas were always considered a long-shot but did a new lawsuit just tip the balance in her favor? Former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez made…

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Guest Voz: Illinois hospitality industry needs the work ethic immigrants bring to the job

May 16, 2018, 10:54 AM 0

By Sam Toia ncluido What do celebrity chef José Andrés and Andrew Carnegie have in common? They’re both immigrants who built American empires. Andrés is famous for his appearances on Top Chef and his successful group of restaurants…

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A Hard Look at New CEO Pay Ratio Data

May 16, 2018, 9:36 AM 0

By Sarah Anderson Inequality.org Big Business fought hard to kill a new regulation requiring corporations to disclose the gap between their CEO and median worker pay. For eight years after the regulation became law, corporate lobby groups fought to…

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Writing Raps Helps Reduce Recidivism in Youth of Color

May 15, 2018, 10:57 AM 0

By Margaret Goldman Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (JJIE) While our nation’s steadily declining rates of juvenile incarceration are encouraging, widening racial disparities are a pressing call for concern. Racial disparities often begin in the school system and persist at…

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