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  Deportation-Separated Parents And Children Need Executive Order To Allow Reunion, Coalition Says

  June 7, 2012 - posted by Lauren Burger - 211 views - 0 comments - 0 likes

  For the second time in as many weeks, a Latino advocacy organization has called on President Barack Obama to use his executive powers to bring some measure of relief to young adults and children entangled in an immigration system that even the president...
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  Juntos con Romney: Mitt Romney Announces Latino Outreach Team

  June 6, 2012 - posted by Lauren Burger - 234 views - 0 comments - 0 likes

  The Romney campaign announced Wednesday that its Latino outreach team, called "Juntos Con Romney," will be led by three Hispanic Republicans, all of whom said they will remain focused on a message about the economy. "America can do better. These last f...
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  Hispanic Dropout Rate Raises Concern in Houston

  June 5, 2012 - posted by Lauren Burger - 259 views - 0 comments - 0 likes

     By Silvia Struthers        Houston's Hispanics are dropping out of school at an alarming rate and only a small group is going on to college, creating a daunting problem for a city that is 40...
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  10 Hispanic Powerbrokers Who are Making Las Vegas Better

  June 5, 2012 - posted by Lauren Burger - 269 views - 0 comments - 0 likes

  The growing influence of Hispanics in Nevada's business community is clear. Since 1990, the state's Latino population has more than doubled, from 10.4 percent to 26.6 percent. More than three-quarters of a million Latinos now live in Nevada. The growth ...
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  Latinos In The Age of influence

  June 4, 2012 - posted by Lauren Burger - 146 views - 0 comments - 0 likes

  By Elianne Ramos, The Huffington Post   On Influence No one who has followed the unbelievable explosion in the social media space would argue with Henry George's assertion on influence. Social media has deemed "the common man" influential by fac...
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  America Ferrera's Message To Latino Voters: 'Don't Let Anyone Scare You'

  June 1, 2012 - posted by Lauren Burger - 192 views - 0 comments - 0 likes

  From the Huffington Post by Janell Ross   In 1994, America Ferrera was 9-years-old and living with her family in Los Angles when her mother took her aside for a conversation adults who are not Latino may find shocking.   A wave of anti-imm...
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  Hispanics face extra financial barriers in higher education without citizenship

  May 31, 2012 - posted by Lauren Burger - 248 views - 0 comments - 0 likes

  Today Hispanics make up 15 percent of the U.S. population, and that number is predicted to double by 2050. Yet Hispanic students represent only 10 percent of college students. Here in Minnesota, that education disparity is one of the largest in the coun...
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  VIDEO: The New American Reality

  May 31, 2012 - posted by Lauren Burger - 263 views - 0 comments - 0 likes

  You've probably read the headlines: "New census milestone: Hispanics reach 50 million";  "U.S. Hispanic population tops 50 million" and one of our favorites "Los USA -- Latino Populations Grow Faster with Wider Spread." The U.S. Census numbers have...
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  VIDEO: The Daily Show Mocks Tucson Mexican-American Studies Ban

  May 25, 2012 - posted by Lauren Burger - 293 views - 0 comments - 0 likes

  The Daily Show   The Daily Show's Senior Latino Correspondent Al Madrigal (also known as their Señor Latino Correspondent) went down to Tucson on Monday to investigate the city's recently instated Mexican-American studies ban. ...