| The recession had a great deal to do with the increase in university enrollments because, apparently, the high levels of unemployment, especially among young people, motivate them to continue their studies to improve their long-term job prospects. ...
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martes, 30 de agosto de 2011
Latino College Enrollment Rises 24%
Latino College Enrollment Rises 24%:
Gov's new neighborhood more like average Floridian
Gov's new neighborhood more like average Floridian: Only a half-percent of residents in the Naples neighborhood had an income in the previous year that was below the poverty line. That was true for about 24 percent of the residents in the Tallahassee neighborhood, about double the statewide rate. ...
Poverty a risk factor for heart disease
Poverty a risk factor for heart disease: Lead author Peter Franks, a professor at the University of California, Davis, says, "Being poor or having less than a high-school education can be regarded as an extra risk when assessing a patient's chances of developing cardiovascular disease. ...
Welfare Nostalgia Won't Help Poor
Welfare Nostalgia Won't Help Poor: But they are wrong to assume that welfare's cash payments are somehow still central to America's efforts to fight poverty, relieve social distress or shorten recessions. Clinton's emphasis on "work first" made the unemployment system, ...
Cuban singer Milanes knocks attacks on 'Ladies'
Cuban singer Milanes knocks attacks on 'Ladies': Milanes, one of the celebrated founders of Cuba's "nueva trova" musical movement, has long maintained he is loyal to the Cuban Revolution. But he has also at times advocated for more freedoms on the island and been critical of the government. ...
Petition launches to free Alan Gross
Petition launches to free Alan Gross: The petition launched Monday appeals to Cuba's leadership to release Gross on humanitarian grounds before the Jewish High Holidays begin with Rosh HaShanah on Sept. 29. Gross, 62, is serving a 15-year prison sentence in Cuba for “crimes against the ...
Chile police sacked over teen death
Chile police sacked over teen death:
| ... an area east of Santiago, one of hundreds of places around the country where unrest broke out during the 48-hour general strike last week. Before dawn on Monday, demonstrators blocked access to Chile's largest copper mines by setting barricades on ...
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Aljazeera.net |
Syria prison deaths show sharp rise in 2011: Amnesty
Syria prison deaths show sharp rise in 2011: Amnesty
... the mass violations and take measures to bring those responsible to account. "The reaction of the UN Security Council has so far been inadequate," said the rights group, pointing to China, Russia, Brazil and India's opposition to any stronger response.
Truth Wins Out - Anti-Gay Puerto Rican Senator Also Likes To Play ...
Truth Wins Out - Anti-Gay Puerto Rican Senator Also Likes To Play ...: Senator Robert Arango, who was the Vice Chairman of George W.Bush and Dick Cheney's Puerto Rico re-election committee in 2004, has been supposedly identified by the Puerto Rican TV show Dando Candela for placing naked pictures of ...
Controversial Airport Is Planned for Costa Rica
Controversial Airport Is Planned for Costa Rica:
| ... Latin American Advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council. But since last October when Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla designated the project one “of national importance,” promoting its ability to fight poverty and create jobs, ...
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New York Times (blog) |
The cartels behind Mexico's drug war World CBC News
The cartels behind Mexico's drug war World CBC News: Mexico's network of drug cartels is nebulous and complex, with the various criminal organizations merging, splintering and shifting alliances in their quest ...
Now in Aisle 6: Tips on healthy eating for low-income shoppers
Now in Aisle 6: Tips on healthy eating for low-income shoppers:
| ... program designed to teach low-income Californians about the importance of proper ... Latinos, who are the fastest-growing ethnic group in California, ...
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Local alumnus works on AIDs crisis
Local alumnus works on AIDs crisis:
| These days, his work focuses on mapping out strategy on healthcare, education and social welfare for Latin America and the Caribbean. He oversees a staff of about 100 and a portfolio of more than 75 projects in 25 countries, totaling roughly $10 ...
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Shoreview Press |
Colombia's poverty politics 'merit cautious welcome': The Guardian
Colombia's poverty politics 'merit cautious welcome': The Guardian
64% of the population fall below the poverty line set by the Colombian government itself. According to The Guardian, the country has fallen behind by its Latin American neighbors. While the Colombian economy has seen rapid growth, its Gini rating ...
Controversial Airport Is Planned for Costa Rica
Controversial Airport Is Planned for Costa Rica:
| ... Latin American Advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council. But since last October when Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla designated the project one “of national importance,” promoting its ability to fight poverty and create jobs, ...
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New York Times (blog) |
Is $29 billion missing from Hugo Chavez's Fonden development fund?
Is $29 billion missing from Hugo Chavez's Fonden development fund?
Our guest blogger and his colleague look into why money in a massive fund in Venezuela is unaccounted for. Their efforts also shine light on a day of Venezuelan bureaucracy. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez talks during a television broadcast about ...
Chile Stocks Rise 1% As Investors Look For Bargains
Chile Stocks Rise 1% As Investors Look For Bargains: SANTIAGO (Dow Jones)--Chile's blue-chip Ipsa index rose 1.0% Tuesday afternoon, as investors shopped around for bargains. The Ipsa index rose to 4257.11 points despite weaker-than-expected local industrial production data released earlier in the day. ...
Cuba seeks South African funding for medical projects
Cuba seeks South African funding for medical projects:
| Cuba is using the Norwegian contribution — the second after a $850000 check in January — for the purchase of drugs and medical equipment for its 930-member medical brigade in Haiti. South African Deputy Foreign Minister Ebrahim Ebrahim said during ...
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Cuba Standard.com |
Billion people go to sleep hungry every night
Billion people go to sleep hungry every night:
| So, we hear a lot about the economic growth of Brazil, and India, and China where many people have been lifted out of poverty by that economic success, but hundreds of millions of people in those countries still remain poor. So, there remains a sort of ...
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The Voice of Russia |
Buenos Aires, Argentina to bid for 2018 Youth Olympic Games
Buenos Aires, Argentina to bid for 2018 Youth Olympic Games: Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri along with the President of the Argentine Olympic Committee Gerardo Werthein formally announced Monday that the city will submit an application to bid for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games. ...
Hugo Chavez Says He's Beating Cancer
Hugo Chavez Says He's Beating Cancer:
| Chavez underwent surgery in Cuba in June that removed a cancerous tumor from his pelvic region, and shaved his head after starting to lose his hair due to chemotherapy. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is preparing for a third ...
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ThirdAge |
Divorce rates highest in the South, including La.
Divorce rates highest in the South, including La.: Sociology professor Laurie Chancey said the high divorce rates in the South could be linked to high poverty rates. "Economic stress is one of the biggest reasons people get divorced," Chancey said. Without a stable job or income, she warned, ...
Venezuela's squatter city
Venezuela's squatter city:
| CARACAS, Venezuela — The unfinished 45-story office tower looming over this capital city lacks plumbing, elevators and walls. Yet it's become a haven for squatters desperate for a place to live. The invasion of the half-built tower, a project ...
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GlobalPost |
Chile: general strike adds to pressure on the government
Chile: general strike adds to pressure on the government: Organizers estimated that 250000 to 300000 people marched in Santiago, and an equal number took part in the mobilizations in the rest of the country. Jaime Gajardo, president of the Teachers Association of Chile, called the Santiago march "the largest ...
Mexican cameraman granted political asylum
Mexican cameraman granted political asylum: On July 26 last year, Hernandez Pacheco and a reporter, both of whom were working for Mexican television network Televisa, traveled to Gomez Palacio, Durango, to report on the arrest of Cereso prison director Margarita Rojas, who was accused of ...
lunes, 29 de agosto de 2011
Venezuelans slowly coming into their own
Venezuelans slowly coming into their own
For a nation obsessed with beauty - you could say, they the Brazil of beauty pageants - it's a big surprise that Venezuela has had little time for the beautiful game. Known to the world mostly for its assembly line of breathtaking beauty queens who ...
Judge revokes decision on closure of Venezuelan newspaper 6to Poder
Judge revokes decision on closure of Venezuelan newspaper 6to Poder: A wise man changes his mind, a fool never," he said Caracas Ninth Trial Control Court, presided over by Judge Denisse Bocanegra, resolved to reverse a decision to ban the publication and distribution of Venezuelan weekly newspaper 6to Poder , attorney ...
6500 Colombian girls under 14 get pregnant annually
6500 Colombian girls under 14 get pregnant annually: Santos' government recently called teen pregnancy a serious social issue that further entrenches poverty. President Juan Manuel Santos stated in July that "in the majority of cases, [teen pregnancy] forces young people to stop their studies, ...
Peru in talks over two mining royalty rates-sources
Peru in talks over two mining royalty rates-sources: Securing new funds from lucrative mining firms to fund anti-poverty initiatives was a key campaign promise from leftist President Ollanta Humala. [ID:nN1E77O0WQ] Financial analysts praised Thursday's announcement for being a reasonable sum and noted ...
Puerto Rico senator resigns after linked to nude photos
Puerto Rico senator resigns after linked to nude photos: San Juan – The leader of the governing PNP in the Puerto Rican Senate, Roberto Arango, resigned amid a scandal over nude photos that appeared on an iPhone social-networking application for gay and bisexual men. The news was made public by Senate ...
Venezuelan court lifts order against newspaper, allowing it to resume publishing
Venezuelan court lifts order against newspaper, allowing it to resume publishing
By AP, CARACAS, Venezuela — A Venezuelan court on Monday lifted an order that had barred a weekly newspaper from being published, a lawyer for the paper said. A judge had ordered the newspaper 6to Poder to temporarily stop publishing after it ran a ...
Police brutality should be front-page news in Argentina
Police brutality should be front-page news in Argentina:
| A recent study at Tennessee's Vanderbilt University identified Argentina as having one of the worst records of police violence in Latin America, with 8.7% of the population subjected to some form of violence and abuse by the Argentinian police forces ...
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The Guardian |
Gangs forge new business model in, out of prison
Gangs forge new business model in, out of prison: "On the street I'm Syndicate Four, but in the jail I'm a Four Corner Hustler," he said. The faction obtains heroin from Hispanic gang members connected to Mexican cartels, he said. To make sure its customers aren't actually cops, the faction conducts ...
World's Most Powerful Women In Politics
World's Most Powerful Women In Politics
... making Rousseff the first female head of government in Brazil. The economist and former Marxist guerrilla served previously as the country's Minister of Energy and Chief of Staff, during which a reported 24 million escaped absolute poverty. ...
Controversial victims on Chile's official list
Controversial victims on Chile's official list
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Some Chileans are upset that two people who collaborated with Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and an alleged leftist assassin can now get $256 a month in compensation as victims of torture. Lorena Pizarro, president of a ...
Searching for Candela: Police goes door-by-door
Searching for Candela: Police goes door-by-door: In another day of the massive search of 11-year-older Candela Rodríguez, who's been missing since a week ago, Buenos Aires province police authorities have decided to go door by door in order to cover all victim family's neighbouring residences in ...
Kiss of Death: A Parasite Threatens Latin American Immigrants
Kiss of Death: A Parasite Threatens Latin American Immigrants: In landlocked Bolivia, where 60 percent of people live under the poverty line, 1 million people—or almost 10 percent of the population—has Chagas. ...
Indigenous activists gain momentum in Bolivia
Indigenous activists gain momentum in Bolivia:
| Miners, teachers, university students, and even another major indigenous sector, known as the Ponchos Rojos, who have been loyal to the government until now, will join. Accusations by the president that non-governmental organisations and the US embassy ...
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Aljazeera.net |
Venezuela's Guayana Holds $250 Billion of Gold, Mundo Report
Venezuela's Guayana Holds $250 Billion of Gold, Mundo Report: By Nathan Crooks - Mon Aug 29 14:20:57 GMT 2011 Venezuela's southern Guayana region, which includes the states of Bolivar, Amazonas and part of Delta Amacuro, has 140 million ounces of gold reserves, newspaper El Mundo reported today. ...
Health and poverty confronted
Health and poverty confronted:
| Life expectancy in South Africa is 45 and, according to Rispel, “it doesn't compare well to other countries of similar income, such as Brazil”. Maternal and infant mortality rates are alarmingly high, and the maternal mortality rate increased between ...
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Joburg |
Brazil may target growth by cutting rates as spending falls
Brazil may target growth by cutting rates as spending falls
Brazil weathered the global recession better than most nations and economic growth combined with the welfare state have pulled tens of millions of families out of poverty. Right now, the main challenge remains diversifying the economy beyond the ...
Cubans may finally get to buy new cars
Cubans may finally get to buy new cars:
| By Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY After decades of having to try to keep 1950s American cars running, Cubans may finally get to a chance to buy new cars. Early next year, Cuban authorities plan to loosen restrictions and make it easier for private citizens ...
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USA Today |
Grandparents play a bigger role in child-rearing
Grandparents play a bigger role in child-rearing: They were led by states such as Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona and Kentucky, which had influxes of young families or suffered higher rates of poverty. On the other end of the scale, New Jersey, New York, Michigan and Louisiana saw the smallest ...
In NY-9 Special Election, Questions About Outreach To Latino Voters
In NY-9 Special Election, Questions About Outreach To Latino Voters: “Given how poor the GOP brand is on immigration and unemployment issues, not to mention Medicare and Medicaid … if the Democrats launch a robust and surgical GOTV drive amongst Hispanic and Asian Democrats, Weprin should win comfortably,” one analyst ...
Young Men's Initiative: A Win-Win
Young Men's Initiative: A Win-Win: To help more formerly incarcerated individuals find jobs, we must reduce counterproductive barriers to legitimate employment. That's why, in announcing the launch of his comprehensive strategy to promote opportunity for Black and Latino males, ...
Tennessee is second fattest state in annual obesity report
Tennessee is second fattest state in annual obesity report: 1 spot for most obese Latinos, while ranking sixth for obesity among blacks. ... Glover Blackwell said more than 23 million people in low-income ...
Kiss of Death: A Parasite Threatens Latin American Immigrants
Kiss of Death: A Parasite Threatens Latin American Immigrants
"Congestive heart failure is one of the most expensive diagnoses. If you want to save money in the long term, this should be part of preventative care for Latin American immigrants." Chagas is a disease of poverty. The vinchuga, which transmits most ...
Planning begins for 'Day of Caring' for breast cancer
Planning begins for 'Day of Caring' for breast cancer: 15 at Smith & Wollensky, 1 Washington Ave., South Pointe Park, Miami Beach. There is a minimum donation of $50 per person. The egg farm is part of the EWI program, “Breaking the Cycle of Poverty,” comprised of 10 projects in four areas: economic ...
Thriving Microfinance Sector Strengthens Colombia's Economy
Thriving Microfinance Sector Strengthens Colombia's Economy: Nearly 50% of Colombia's 46 million citizens live below the poverty line. Micro-finance organizations such as Colombians Supporting Colombians (CAC) are giving entrepreneurs a leg up by providing micro-loans and other banking services that conventional ...
Farrell Files: Rubio calls greatest generation weak
Farrell Files: Rubio calls greatest generation weak: In 1967, the first full year of Medicare benefits the percentage of Americans aged 65 or older living under the poverty line was 35%. By 1995 that percentage had dropped to only 10%. Rubio's vaunted free market theory of 'business knows best' doesn't ...
domingo, 28 de agosto de 2011
Michael Goforth: Florida kids should count for a lot more than they do now
Michael Goforth: Florida kids should count for a lot more than they do now: Between 2000 and 2009, the number of Florida children living in poverty increased by 11 percent, with more than 850000 living in poverty as of 2009. The dismal figures related to the economy and its impact on children come as little surprise to ...
Close calls as New York floods rush in
Close calls as New York floods rush in
Jose Pabon, who is originally from Puerto Rico, was not excited as he came downstairs from his Coney Island home and saw a still-flooded side street. "Back in Puerto Rico, the whole city could be closed down for days," he said. ...
Latin America's first Baha'i temple is in Panama
Latin America's first Baha'i temple is in Panama: He was also the leader of a faith that propounds that the central teachings of all religions are the same. Because of him, Panama became the first site for a Baha'i temple in Latin America. The contribution that follows was submitted by a Newsroom ...
The Man Who Declared Himself Emperor of the US
The Man Who Declared Himself Emperor of the US: He decreed that anyone found guilty of using the word “Frisco” must pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. Even today many citizens of San Francisco warn visitors never to call the great city “Frisco." Perhaps Emperor Norton's most famous decree ordered ...
Venezuela Reduced Poverty by 50%, Affirms Eclac
Venezuela Reduced Poverty by 50%, Affirms Eclac: Nevertheless, poverty dropped on average overall between 25 and 30 percent. The Venezuelan case has to be deeply analyzed because the South American nation reduced poverty by more than 50 percent through 2009”, explained President Chavez. ...
India attempting to deepen trade ties with Latin America
India attempting to deepen trade ties with Latin America: ... India has to generate the jobs it needs to overcome poverty and deprivation suggests that LAC's (Latin American and Caribbean) manufacturers should assume a scenario in which India eventually joins China as a major exporter of manufactured goods.”
Chavez set to begin new round of cancer treatment
Chavez set to begin new round of cancer treatment: By JORGE RUEDA - CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez thanked Venezuelans on Sunday for praying for his health as he undergoes a third round of chemotherapy at a military hospital in Caracas, this time getting the cancer ...
Chile president vows action on youth's killing
Chile president vows action on youth's killing
SANTIAGO — Chilean President Sebastian Pinera pledged Sunday to get to the bottom of the killing of a teen during a mass protest as student leaders agreed to meet with the president on their grievances. Manuel Gutierrez was shot to death Thursday ...
18 million Colombians living in poverty - YouTube
18 million Colombians living in poverty - YouTube:
 | The Colombian government announced a decline in poverty in 2010, the figure fell from 45% in 2009 to 40% last year, currently there are 18 ...
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Venezuela: Troubles to access Blogger.com
Venezuela: Troubles to access Blogger.com: During all the month of August, Venezuelan bloggers have been complaining about difficulties to access Blogger.com services. A thread was opened [es] in Google support forums, according to which, traceroutes made by users are giving different kind of ...
Bachmann Invokes Passion for Conservative Cause
Bachmann Invokes Passion for Conservative Cause: She spoke of how her parents' divorce when she was young propelled her family into poverty. “As you can imagine, our life completely changed,” Bachmann recalled. “We had a four-bedroom home in the suburbs that had to be sold. We couldn't afford it. ...
Crime of crimes produced a hero
Crime of crimes produced a hero: For the past three years I have been able to be in Buenos Aires on Aug, 23 to attend the ceremony held annually on Ave. Libertador, near Plaza Francia, to honour Col. Argentino del Valle Larrabure. On that day in 1975 one of the worst atrocities in ...
Murder victim's mother slams Irish presidential candidate
Murder victim's mother slams Irish presidential candidate
A murder victim's mother has criticized Irish presidential candidate Gay Mitchell's policy of asking for leniency for death row inmates. The Fine Gael nominee has a long history of opposition to the death penalty, but some requests he has made have not ...
Many death sentences in US military overturned
Many death sentences in US military overturned: Of the 16 men sentenced to death since the military overhauled its system in 1984, 10 have been taken off death row. The military's appeals courts have overturned most of the sentences, not because of a change in heart about the death penalty or ...
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