I was incredibly busy yesterday managing our relocation to Madison, home sale stuff, packing, teaching, kids – but was literally stopped in my tracks listening to this segment (A Penny a Pound) via The Story on NPR. Hard to believe that farmworkers still struggle to gain the most basic worker’s rights. The Florida farmworkers in this piece are making…
Dr. Paul Campos thinks law schools are not being entirely direct about law school grad job numbers: For most people considering law school, this question is hardly an easy one. Law schools, however, make it much harder than it needs to be by publishing misleading data about their employment statistics. Many law schools all but explicitly…
Orlando Rodriguez revisits a topic that I’m very familiar with – both personally and professionally – the impact of family ties on Latino success. When I worked at the University of Texas at El Paso Career Center back in the mid-1990s, one of the biggest challenges we faced (and feedback we often received from employers) was the reluctance…
Jennifer Wynn at BeingLatino shares some good thoughts on the PBS series and the complexity of Latinos: Dominicans are mostly mulattoes and we should celebrate and embrace all sides of our ancestry, regardless of our skin color or what we look like. The Dominican Embassy states that, “the ethnic composition of the Dominican population is…
The Labor Council for Latino American Advancement (LCAA) has just published a comprehensive report on the U.S. Latino labor force. It’s filled with a lot of data and recommendations for legislators. Latinos today are the fastest growing group in the nation. From 1970 to 2008 the Latino population grew by 417% compared to 49.6% for…
Elena Gray at the The Observer provides a realistic look of Latinos on campus. Unless they’re attending a college with significant Latino population, most Latinos feel like they’re alone on an island. The experience here can be applied to most organizations as well. “Though Notre Dame is one of the most national schools, I feel that the majority of the students on campus still wind…
Galina Espinoza, editor of Latina Magazine, shares a story of dumb assumptions. I had many of the same type of experiences in my college days. In 1990, I had just started my senior year at an Ivy League college when my political science professor asked me to come see her about the first paper I had turned…
According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute, Maryland has the lowest Latino unemployment rate – hovering around 8.8%. Still high but much lower than the 12+% national average.
The story behind Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ruben Vives. From almost being deported to Pulitzer Prize winner. Amazing.
Newsweek’s cover story on the plight of white males during the “great recession” is creating a lot of buzz on blogs and social media. Quite ironic when you consider the plight of minorities during the same period – not rosy either. Some bloggers have run the numbers to add some perspective to the topic including the plight…
