New York’s First All-Women Mariachi, Voted “Best of 2013”

Commentary
By Marian Wright Edelman

One of our country’s most cherished values is the idea that if you work hard you can get ahead, be part of the middle class, raise a family comfortably, and ensure your children will do better than you did. But this is a hollow promise to countless families today. The sad truth is you can work full time in America and not be able to meet your family’s basic needs. A parent working full time at the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour earns $15,080 a year before taxes.

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<p><strong>Dear Mexican: Why do so many Chicanos claim to be Aztec?</strong><br>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Chicano stuck in leavenworth</strong></p>