La Costa Latina The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes increased in all U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico between 1995 and 2010, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During that…
By Jaclyn Lopez LatinaLista The first time I met Representative Raúl Grijalva was in 2005 at the Tucson Community Earth Day Celebration. The inaugural event was the environmental communities’ answer to the greenwashed, Raytheon-sponsored Earth Day parade. Representative Grijalva,…
LatinaLista — A stark reality that now faces the United States is that the country’s manufacturing, high-tech and software industries don’t have enough skilled workers to fill the current job vacancies. With 40 percent of Latino students dropping out…
LatinaLista — An international observance like Human Rights Day is usually celebrated either by remembering why such an observance was created in the first place or how much more needs to be done by citing all the examples of…
LatinaLista — Today marks the annual observance of Human Rights Day. This year, the United Nations tapped social media to create a theme reflective of the platform’s best usage — using people’s voices. The 2012 theme for Human Rights…
by Susan Orosco 8 Ways to Say I Love My Life Practicing the Law of Attraction can sometimes be frustrating. Too often the process produces the opposite of what we want. I often wonder if one of the reasons…
LatinaLista — The prospect of a future where 50 percent of the population have never graduated from high school sounds almost like a sci-fi thriller, except there’s no need to wait for the future — it’s happening now. In…
By Angela Covo La Prensa SAN ANTONIO — This week on Dec. 12, Roman Catholics throughout the world, but especially in South Texas and Mexico, celebrate the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Almost 500 years ago, close…
By Elaine McArdle LatinaLista People often complain there are too many lawyers in the world, and you may think they have a point. After all, an astonishing 40,000 students graduate from American law schools each year, and there are…
LatinaLista — Disease is big business, especially if the cure or treatment exceed the pocketbooks of many patients. The fact that medical debt drives people into bankruptcy and even to suicide or people are turned away from hospitals because…
LatinaLista — For most young women, an unintended pregnancy is devastating news, especially if that young woman has already dreamt of college and career success. While having a baby doesn’t make those dreams unattainable, a baby in the house…
LatinaLista — It is said that the nation’s foster children are the ‘invisible children.’ With no real family of their own and shuttled from one home to another until they’re either adopted or age out of the foster care…
By Dustin Mendus Más Wired Mexican immigrants were the biggest immigrant group, but Indian immigrants tended to found startups at higher rates. The Kauffman Foundation has released a new publication focusing on immigrant entrepreneurs in the United States. This…
LatinaLista — Just in time for the start of this year’s Hanukkah (Dec. 8-16), a new web series debuts that is bound to offend, amuse and puzzle ‘in light’ that the two main characters are Yiddish-speaking gang bangers —…
By Mark Osborne The Venture Since I started on staff in 2009, by-in-large my identity has been that of a white gay male from a low-income background. As such, that was largely the perspective that was often solicited from…
LatinaLista — Before the rise of mami bloggers and the Latino blogosphere there was Las Comadres. Officially known as Las Comadres Para Las Americas, the Austin-based group has been connecting Latinas of all ages and professions across the nation…
LatinaLista — A New York Times article that was published earlier this week revealing that Latino school children, who make up nearly a quarter of the public school population across the country, are less likely to see characters like…
LatinaLista — The importance of language can never be underestimated, especially for authors. Yet, for the scribes of our time, language means more than just words strung together to convey a thought or a scene. For bilingual writers, language…
SaludToday Having a colonoscopy might be pretty low on Latino adults’ to-do lists. Even hearing the term “colonoscopy” might make some people a bit squeamish. But it can also save your life. Just take it from Armida Flores, a…
By Lilly Zeller Third Sector Awareness We have a tendency to associate each month with one or several causes. Many of us do not realize that that are a vast number of causes celebrated each month. Unless we have…
By Melanie Williams CTLatinoNews.com CONNECTICUT — This generation of children may not outlive its parents. That startling statistic is the result of a UConn study that finds Latino children were significantly more likely to be overweight or obese than…
LatinaLista — After the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year when the world watched in horror as Japan battled nuclear meltdowns, the release of radioactive materials in their land, food and water supplies and tackled the worst nuclear disaster since…
LatinaLista — A casual GOOGLE search using the terms “lack of diversity” yields some disappointing headlines: 113th Congress: Lack of Diversity in the GOP is Reflected in Congress Lack of diversity in new Washington (State)legislature Lack of diversity among…
By Daniel Higa Alquicira Infosurhoy.com MEXICO CITY – Since he was a child, Luis Alberto Ramos Hernández dreamed of singing and dancing on the world’s biggest stages. But coming from a low-income family in the Colonia Anáhuac of the…
El Tiempo Hispano The Delaware Leadership Project (DLP) is a new, state-approved alternate route to principal certification program for those interested in leading our state’s highest-need urban and rural schools. DELAWARE — The 14 months of preparation that aspiring…
