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Guest Voz: How To Fix the Large and Growing Latinx Teacher-Student Gap

Feb 21, 2018, 11:27 AM 0

By Sarah Shapiro and Lisette Partelow ncluido In September 2017, President Donald Trump put 20,000 teachers at risk of deportation when he terminated the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program—the Obama-era initiative that grants temporary protection to unauthorized immigrants who were brought into…

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Alcohol probably makes it harder to stop sexual violence – so why aren’t colleges talking about it?

Feb 20, 2018, 10:23 AM 0

By Dominic Parrott and Ruschelle Leone The Conversation Several years ago, one of us (Dominic) was consulting with university administration on their sexual violence prevention program. All colleges and universities that receive Title IX funding are federally mandated to…

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For black women and uninsured, breast cancer linked to job loss

Feb 19, 2018, 9:00 AM 0

By Neil Schoenherr Futurity Research shows that African-American women and the uninsured are four times more likely to lose their jobs after a diagnosis of breast cancer, despite its high survival rates. Job loss following early-stage breast cancer diagnosis…

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Help stop climate change by changing driving habits

Feb 15, 2018, 9:39 AM 0

By Diane MacEachern Moms Clean Air Force One of the fastest, easiest and most significant ways to help stop climate change is by changing driving habits. You don’t need to give up driving, and you don’t need to buy…

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Guest Voz: There’s More To Black History Than Slavery

Feb 13, 2018, 10:36 AM 0

By Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D ncluido Black history month is a time to celebrate Americans whose accomplishments are sometimes overshadowed by the eye-catching negative news stories. It was discomfiting to watch the State of the Union address while…

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Debunking 3 myths behind ‘chain migration’ and ‘low-skilled’ immigrants

Feb 13, 2018, 9:00 AM 0

By Raquel Aldana The Conversation President Donald Trump has embraced the rhetoric of “chain migration” to spread the message that the United States is legally letting in too many of the wrong kind of immigrant. That term, however, distorts…

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Targeted intervention benefits Hispanics with mental illness

Feb 12, 2018, 10:57 AM 0

By Neil Schoenherr Futurity A culturally-adapted intervention shows potential for improving health outcomes for Hispanics with serious mental illness, a new study shows. “‘Bridges to Better Health and Wellness’ is a promising intervention that can help to address some of…

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Mexico City-born college senior creates magic with first-ever all-Spanish Las Vegas show

Feb 7, 2018, 1:13 PM 0

LatinaLista — Santiago Michel had an American Dream — leave his family and friends behind in Mexico City, enroll at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ (UNLV) Hospitality College, headline his own magic show on the Las Vegas Strip…

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A Serious Push for Free College in California

Feb 7, 2018, 10:32 AM 0

By Chuck Collins Inequality.org Estuardo Mazariegos understands the burden of paying for his education. He started college in 2006 and has attended on and off for financial reasons. Now in his last semester, he claims his annual tuition and fees…

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Compton Jr. Posse Fights Gang Membership on Horseback

Feb 6, 2018, 12:56 PM 0

By Caleigh Wells Juvenile Justice Information Exchange LOS ANGELES — Since local violence peaked in the 1990s, the Compton neighborhood has battled gang culture and worked to lower its high crime rates. For 30 years one after-school program has…

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Does America have a caste system?

Feb 5, 2018, 11:54 AM 0

By Subramanian Shankar The Conversation In the United States, inequality tends to be framed as an issue of either class, race or both. Consider, for example, criticism that Republicans’ new tax plan is a weapon of “class warfare,” or…

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Dating partners commit more domestic abuse than spouses

Feb 2, 2018, 11:36 AM 0

By Michele Berger Futurity Federal regulations designed to keep guns away from abusive partners, like the Violence Against Women Act, do not currently apply to dating relationships. But new research suggests they should. According to the work of Susan…

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Houston’s LULAC Clubhouse a National Treasure

Jan 31, 2018, 9:53 AM 0

Saving Places LULAC, or the League of United Latin American Citizens, was formed in 1929 by three Mexican American organizations in response to decades of anti-Mexican violence. This national organization—which has challenged legal and cultural injustice throughout its existence—was…

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Cross-state air pollution: The proof is in the cradle

Jan 29, 2018, 2:27 PM 0

By Marcia G. Yerman Moms Clean Air Force Back in 2012, I wrote about the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) and the impacts of pollution that traveled via wind from one state to another. It was a look at…

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The Crisis of Cervical Cancer among Latinas

Jan 25, 2018, 9:00 AM 0

By Cliff Despres SaludToday Cervical cancer is highly preventable. That is why it’s so alarming that Latinas are twice as likely to be diagnosed with cervical cancer than other women. They also have the highest rate of cervical cancer…

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Juvenile justice system may miss mental health issues

Jan 24, 2018, 11:06 AM 0

By Bert Gambini Futurity A tool used by many jurisdictions within the juvenile justice system to help recognize and assess the effects of adversity and trauma in children’s lives may not be the best way to evaluate mental health…

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Spanish use is steady or dropping in US despite high Latino immigration

Jan 23, 2018, 7:52 AM 0

By Phillip M. Carter The Conversation Hidden just beneath the surface of the ongoing heated debate about immigration in the United States lurks an often unspoken concern: language. Specifically, whether immigration from Spanish-speaking countries threatens the English language’s dominance….

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Guest Voz: How the shutdown and DACA could drive 2018 turnout for Democrat

Jan 22, 2018, 7:58 AM 0

By Dante Chinni ncluido Washington is struggling, again, with a government shutdown. But this time a nonbudget issue is driving much of the debate: the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program, or DACA. Congressional Democrats are demanding that…

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North Carolina Group Keeps Dreamers’ College Goals Alive

Jan 22, 2018, 7:57 AM 0

By Victoria Edwards Juvenile Justice Information Exchange SANFORD, North Carolina — As a high school sophomore and DACA recipient, the connections Danny Rodas made through his mentorship program were invaluable to helping him understand the challenges he would face…

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Ahead of government shutdown, Congress sets its sights on not-so-comprehensive immigration reform

Jan 19, 2018, 9:33 AM 0

By Matthew Wright The Conversation For a moment, it looked as though 2018 might be the year that ended a three-decade streak of failure to pass so-called “comprehensive immigration reform.” On Jan. 11, a bipartisan group of six senators…

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5 must-do resolutions to prepare for an uncertain 2018

Jan 19, 2018, 8:25 AM 0

By Marisa Treviño ncluido We are fast approaching February. A month, clinical psychologists say, is when 80 percent of us give up on the good intentions we pledged to improve ourselves in the new year. Most of us promise-breakers, maybe feel a…

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Green Kids Club: Helping Kids be Better Global Citizens

Jan 18, 2018, 12:14 PM 0

By Rebecca Flansburg Multicultural Children’s Book Day So What is the Green Kids Club? Green Kids Club is designed to teach young children the importance of environmental stewardship through picture books. The series was developed to teach children…

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Get Out of Debt: 7 Tips From People Who Did It

Jan 17, 2018, 8:01 AM 0

By Jeanne Lee Nerd Wallet Debt doesn’t have to be a way of life. Take it from those who’ve been there. Whether it was dealing with credit cards, student loans, car loans or other debt, the people profiled in…

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Guest Voz: More companies should follow the example of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos

Jan 17, 2018, 7:42 AM 0

By Edward Rincón ncluido It was indeed news shattering: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos just announced a contribution of $33 million to 1,000 DACA program students to pay for a four-year college education. As you may know, DACA (Deferred Action…

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To Understand Inequality in America, Look Outside of the Cities

Jan 16, 2018, 11:47 AM 0

By Negin Owliaei Inequality.org You can’t count on your phone’s mapping app to guide you in rural Alabama, Catherine Flowers says. A Lowndes County native, she recently had visitors try to find their way around using a GPS….

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