On the day before Hurricane Fiona struck the island, the number of calls to the Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration’s PAS Line doubled. On the day of the storm, “the same thing happened,” the head of the agency said. By Alejandra M. Jover Tovar …
Read MoreNeeded Latino Transformation: Changing the conditions for 60 million Hispanics
by Charles A. Serrano Jiménez, MUPP The Latino Population is growing faster than expected. With an influx of professionals from Latin America, rates will grow more rapidly in both urban areas and suburban America. The country is experiencing 500,000 Latino youth who turn 18 years old …
Read MoreLatinx Students are Dropping Out of College almost as Fast as They’re Enrolling. Two College Leadership Fellows Reflect on What to do about it.
February 25, 2021 in Higher Education by Luis León Medina and Andrew Mendoza, both Lideres Avanzando Fellows Year after year, hundreds of thousands of Latinx and first-generation college students head off to institutions of higher education with the goal of attaining a degree that can …
Read MoreLos boricuas en el estado clave de Pennsylvania quieren derrotar a Trump, pero no será nada sencillo
Fuente: Telemundo, Oct. 27, 2020, por Milli Legrain LANCASTER, Pennsylvania.– Ana Celia Ortiz lo tiene claro. El 3 de noviembre, esta puertorriqueña nacida en Hato Tejas, Bayamón, votará demócrata como ha hecho siempre. Dice que prefiere que la llamen “Ana”, que llegó a Estados Unidos en 1957 …
Read More‘Be very careful’: The dangers for Mexicans working legally on US farms
By Milli Legrain in Monterrey, Mexico; taken from The Guardian, Thurs 16 May 2019 The sun is rising, and a line of workers dressed in jeans and hoodies is already snaking its way around the block. A few of them started gathering outside the US consulate …
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