A new study published late last week shows that immigrants are driving the startup economy in the U.S. -- along with showing a boom in immigrant Latino entrepreneurs starting new businesses.
The bilingual, Latino-centric graduation ceremony held earlier this week at Harvard University celebrated the achievements of Hispanics/Latinos at the school. However, the halls of the elite institution have not always feel welcoming to Latino students.
Worldwide, students are optimistic about their education; this is particularly true of students in the developing world. There, students are confident in the quality of their high education and the likelihood that it will yield a great return on their investment.
Undocumented workers aren't the only ones subjected to backbreaking work conditions and wage discrimination; legal migrant workers also experience the same workplace drawbacks.
Cuban and Puerto Rican adults who grow up in households with smokers are twice as likely to smoke during their adulthoods than non-Hispanic populations, and slightly more likely than other Hispanic subgroups, according to a new report.
Venezuelans have been in a rush to unload their depreciating currency, and this has in turn led to a devastating drop in its value, leading the the troubled country closer to an outbreak of hyperinflation.
Approximately 3.8 million Hispanic children participate in afterschool programs, and 66 percent of those parents believe that afterschool programs should emphasize the importance of healthy eating and physical activity when engaging their young children.
The newly published list that features the nation's top cities for employment opportunities excludes many big cities. This fact can be accredited to smaller cities' position as a low-cost alternative for large companies. Those areas boost a lower cost of living than heavily populated cities.
Hispanic/Latinas experience lower blood folate levels due to their limited consumption of folic acid and their lack of knowledge on the subject. For this reason, Latinas are 1.5 to three times more likely to deliver a child affected by birth defects, compared to non-Latino whites.
Detroit Tigers infielder Miguel Cabrera recently hit his 400th career home run. That home run was not only a career milestone, but it is the most ever by a Venezuelan-born player in MLB history. How many home runs will Cabrera finish with?
Everything seems expensive nowadays, particularly when you're a freshly graduated millennial burdened with student loan debt, while you're simultaneously searching to start a life in a city that has job opportunities and an affordable cost of living. Luckily, a new report was published that illustrates which cities likely offer prosperous careers.
Every 67 seconds someone in the United States develops Alzheimer's disease, which is the only top ten leading cause of death in the U.S. that presently cannot be prevented, cured or slowed. Just as unfortunate, the disease and other dementias disproportionately affect older African-Americans and Hispanics.
Hispanic/Latino students in Illinois are leading the nation when it comes to participation in Advanced Placement examinations, according to a national report.
With 1.5 trillion in spending power, there's little need for arguing -- Latinos have a firm hold on national wealth and spending that has influences the way mainstream marketers think, function and spend.
Clave al Éxito (Key to Success), an offspring of the award-winning Univision Contigo empowerment platform, is a new Spanish-language, mobile-optimized website that empowers and guides Hispanic parents in supporting their children's educational success from pre-kindergarten through high school.
The 2015 Major League Baseball season is young, but there's no doubt about it, Latinos have been making a tremendous presence. Some of the best pitchers this season hail from numerous Latin American nations. Take a look.
The national graduation rate reached 81.4 percent in 2013, a record high, and its improvement is largely due to increased graduation rates among low-income, African American and Latino American students.
Jennifer Lopez might have garnered the most attention from an audience not used to hearing business pitches from global pop superstars last week at the Venture Capital Association's VentureScape conference. But it's her father David, co-founder of the Latino startup-focused Manos Accelerator, who most challenged the assumptions of those investors in budding businesses.
House Speaker John Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi negotiated and passed a bipartisan $200 billion Medicare bill that quietly increased funding for abstinence-only programs. However, ignorance bred in abstinence-only education could've contributed to the chlamydia outbreak among students in an abstinence-only West Texas high school.
