Last week, Iowa Democratic Senator Tom Harkin proposed raising the minimum wage, just three weeks after President Obama called for increasing it to $9 an hour … Read More
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Telemundo Latin America news roundup – January 22, 2013
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The latest Latin America news in under 59 seconds. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto kicked off a national crusade against hunger yesterday. The plan … Read More
California childhood poverty rates increasing
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Nearly half of California's children live in poverty or "perilously close" to it, according to a new report that warns about a trend of increasing childhood … Read More
Summit tries to combat hunger among U.S. Latino children
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Hunger is something we think doesn't happen here. But according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), 16.7 million children under 18 in the … Read More
LA Mayor Villaraigosa on charting the path from poverty to prosperity
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A new report released on Monday from the "Half-in-Ten" campaign outlines where the U.S. is falling short in fixing its poverty problem and how it can take big … Read More
Opinion: Obama won on the backs of Latinos, he owes us one
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Affirmative Action won this year -- big. Preferential treatment was the “in thing” this whole year. Quotas were all the rage. This was the year the … Read More
Opinion: Welfare to work is not all about politics
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The Romney campaign has launched a series of ads attacking the Obama administration for recent executive actions that would, according to a Romney press … Read More
