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Black Latinos Are Almost Invisible In The Census. We Can Fix That. - These kinds of inequities among Latinos extend throughout Latin America . Research in various Latin American countries — including Bolivia, Mexico and Colombia — shows that the lightest Latinos achieve the highest educational outcomes, and black Latinos the lowest. The underrepresentation of ...

Why Latinos Are Disproportionately Affected by Asthma  -  Latinos are one of the poorest demographics in the United States, with roughly 1 in 4 Latinos living under the poverty level. Many Latinos also face ...

7 Ways the Affordable Care Act Helps Latinos : All Latinos will save on important preventive services available free of cost and senior Latinos will save through lower Medicare Advantage premiums and lower prescription drug costs. Further, as many as 9 million low-income Latinos will gain coverage ... Center For American Progress

Latinos need to be represented more in media - As is seen through the cultivation theory, which claims that over time, media shapes how audiences perceive the world around them. With Latinos being cast as stereotypes, such as criminals, immigrants, maids, and lovers, people can develop that view of all Latinos . The problem at hand is there hasn't ...

People who are dark skin have to pronounce themselves as Afro-Latinos. The Latinos that are not dark-skinned don't call themselves White Latinos or ... View article...

Why are Latinos not using palliative and hospice care?  - Menos del 10 por ciento de los latinos han informado o escrito sus ... “ People think that ' Latinos don't talk about these issues,' or that 'they take care of  ...

Why Latinos Are Leading the Charge to End the Drug War   -  Latinos make up 17 percent of the US population, and use and sell drugs at similar rates as other people in the United States. Yet, Latinos comprise ...

White House On Desperate Push To Get California Latinos Enrolled In Obamacare  - Almost half of all Latinos in California are eligible for subsidies and tax ... people in the community know that the vast majority of eligible Latinos can  ...

Latinos, hit hard by job losses, are making strong comeback : While they make up only 15% of the country's workforce, Latinos have racked up half the employment gains posted since the economy began adding jobs in early 2010, Labor Department data showed. The improving labor market for Latinos , a key voting bloc, ... Los Angeles Times

For Latinos , Mario Cuomo's 'Tale of Two Cities' Critique Remains Timely  - Census data from 2013 shows that one-in-six Americans live in poverty . And for Latinos , things get worse - one-in-four Latinos are counted as poor, ...

Heavy Police Tactics A Reality For Immigrants, Latinos Too   - Justice Department to have violated the civil rights of Latinos and a judge ruled the office racially profiled Latinos . For years, immigrants and people  ...

The new face of poverty: Hope amid despair for local Latinos : Though the poverty rate is higher among Reading's Latinos than for the city overall, local Latinos believe they aren't the cause of poverty increasing locally. After all, they say, Latino homeownership in Reading increased 93 percent in the city from ...

For Aid Insuring Latinos , Groups Look Close to Home  - Mr. Rodriguez said there are two daunting aspects of the federal marketplace for Latinos . He said it was difficult for Latinos , as with many people , to address the  ...

Majority Of Americans, Including Latinos , Approve Of Normalizing Relations With Cuba, Poll Finds  - Only 26% overall and 25% of Latinos did not approve. ... More than half of Latinos , 54%, said people of color were treated just like anyone else by ...

Half of All U.S. Latinos Live In The Country's Most Polluted Cities : As a group, Latino voters in key voting states overwhelmingly reject this notion. With unemployment rates for Latinos hovering well above the national average, jobs and the economy are understandably a high priority. However, Latinos are not willing to ... Español | Português | Las américas

The African Americans , the Latinos, the Asians, and Their Allies - The African Americans , the Latinos, the Asians, and Their Allies ... It is the “the” before African American , and Latinos, and all the other others that creates ... with the lack of meaningful conversations and programming about race .

Why Latinos Are Key As Democrats Plot 2016 Strategies  - Meanwhile, Latinos , feeling they'd been betrayed and taken for granted, ... Had Latinos turned out in larger numbers, people like Jim Costa, Scott ...

Rick Perry has no place for Latinos - But many of those disenfranchised by the law are poverty -stricken Latinos . El Paso, home to more than half a million Latinos , is one of the poorest ...

Survey: Latinos confident about personal finances, nation's direction : One major reason for Latinos ' raising confidence in the economy is the decline in Hispanic joblessness. In this year's third quarter, the unemployment rate fell to 9.9 percent among Latinos , from 11.2 percent in 2011′s third quarter. Categories ...

Latinos have region's highest poverty rate  -  Latinos have the highest rate of poverty of any racial or ethnic group in Philadelphia. In the city, 44 percent of Latinos live in poverty - twice the national ...