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<p> La Oficina del Censo acaba de revelar que somos más de 50 millones de hispanos en Estados Unidos, exactamente 50,477,594, y que nos hemos consolidado como la minoría más grande, con un porcentaje de 16.3, en contraste con los afroamericanos que constituyen 12.6 y los asiáticos que alcanzaron a ser 4.8 de la población total del país.</p>
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Editorial: By now you have probably heard about the US Census numbers Read more…
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<p> President Obama and Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes discussed immigration, drug trafficking, and the economy during Obama’s trip to El Salvador. But missing was mention of the controversial Central America Free Trade Act (CAFTA).</p>
<p> Thousands of protesters held marches and demonstrations against CAFTA while Obama was in town. The free trade agreement is big news in El Salvador as corporations are suing the country for daring to have environmental laws.</p>
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<p> 50-million Hispanics in the USA! Faster than a speeding bullet, that’s us…</p>
<p> American Hispanics, like famous come–from-behind race horse Silky Sullivan of yesteryear, have sped past the American Black population in numbers, in economics and is rapidly catching up in educational level. By 2050, four decades from now, one in four Americans will have Hispanic backgrounds if nothing less than Hispanic grandparents.</p>
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<p> Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder was killed in Iraq, and his body was sent to his family for a proper burial. On the day the Snyder family was to lay their son to rest, the Phelps family picketed the funeral. They carried signs that read “Thank God for Dead Soldiers,” “Thank God for IEDs,” and “Fags Doom Nations.” The Phelps family did not limit their attacks to the military or the gay and lesbian community, however; they also targeted the Snyder family.</p>
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<p> The most diverse state in the nation became even more so over the past decade, with big shifts in California’s ethnic populations certain to trigger seismic changes in its political landscape as well.</p>
Editorial: Wisconsin Republicans pulled a legal maneuver that did not require a Read more…
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<p> In California, the state government currently spends more than $34 billion a year paying private contractors to do jobs that civil servants can perform for half the cost. Another $900 million of taxpayer funds is wasted annually propping up the state’s failed enterprise zone program. Common sense dictates that any proposal to balance the state budget begin here.</p>
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<p> I was “raised union.”</p>
<p> My mother, who immigrated to the United States from Nicaragua, worked the 3 p.m. to midnight shift at a toy factory after the birth of my younger twin sisters. She was a member of the United Rubber Workers, which later merged with the Steelworkers Union.</p>
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<p> Vivimos momentos que hubieran enorgullecido a César Chávez. Por primera vez en décadas, los trabajadores del país han dicho “¡basta!” y exigido el respeto de quienes los emplean.</p>
<p> En ésta nos jugamos todos los que no somos ricos o superricos nuestro futuro económico y nuestra capacidad de frenar a los enemigos de la salud de nuestras comunidades.</p>