LatinaLista — Headlines are always filled with bad news. In fact, conventional thinking in the news industry is the worse the headline, the bigger the attraction. Unfortunately, it works. Yet, there should always be a time where we can take a rest from the bad headlines and see that there does exist good in the [...]
Laredo, TX has only one Christmas wish: a bookstore for its city
LatinaLista — It was just a couple of weeks before Christmas that the City of Laredo got the news that no man, woman or child should ever have to hear at this time of the year — the Grinch really does exist. But rather than steal Christmas, this Grinch wants to steal the last remaining [...]
New report shows financial industry has not done enough to meet the needs of low-income
LatinaLista — Today the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) released the 2009 FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households. The report found that people who make less than $30,000, along with, blacks, Native Americans and Latinos are the four groups to be the ones who most likely don’t have a bank account. Overall, almost [...]
Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner: 30 years of giving
By Cristina Blackwell SAN ANTONIO — For three decades, the nation’s largest Thanksgiving event of its kind has brought together over 20,000 seniors, families and homeless in San Antonio to provide a free, home-cooked traditional Thanksgiving meal. The Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner invites those in need of a warm holiday meal to celebrate giving thanks [...]
Latina hotel housekeepers have highest rates of injury among peers
LatinaLista — Cleaning house is hard work. Cleaning a hotel room is even harder work. A study that will appear in the January issue of The American Journal of Industrial Medicine found that while studying workers at 50 hotels in the U.S., Latinas had an injury rate two-thirds higher than their white female peers. The [...]
Credit card companies build reward programs from the pocketbooks of low-income, non-card holding minorities
LatinaLista — A new report by the Hispanic Institute has uncovered an alarming practice by credit card and debit companies and banks that result in basically stealing money from the poor to reward the wealthy. Trickle-Up Wealth Transfer: Cross-subsidization in the payment card market is a long and complicated name for a report that uncovers [...]