The global banana trade represents a variety of social, political and economic issues, rooted in economic imperialism, but yet another issue has emerged. Listed as number four on the the world's list of staple crops and one of the biggest profit makers in supermarkets, bananas are being threatened in Latin America and other parts of the world by a ravaging pathogen.
Despite national decline in self-employment, Hispanics saw an increase in 2012. Additonally, those who rallied Wednesday see huge economic benefits and a need to invite immigrants to the country to give the U.S. a competitive edge in the world.
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired verbal and non-verbal communication, weakened social interactions, and limited and repetitive behavior — and it's greatly affecting the Latino community.
Dead Guatemalan women are being dumped in alleyways, dropped by the roadside, and deserted in parks, bodies bound by trash bags, plastic blankets, or left bare for the world to see, abandoned by the wayside like discarded trash.
The enforcement of dress codes, implemented under the guise of discipline and lessons on formal dress, are most likely to be implemented at low-income public schools, and female students and students of color are the most likely to be punished for infractions.
"The Latino Media Gap: A Report on the State of Latinos in U.S. Media" details racial disparities on the big and small screen and highlights the lack of Latino prominence in top 10 films and scripted television series during 2013. The report also details the finer points of the Latino media gap.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the start of 2014 provided four million job openings, but there were 10.2 million job seekers. Young workers face "steeper" competition in the job market against older workers because they have less work experience.
Higher paid Latino jobs have watched their weekly earnings grow 4.4 percent from $1,604 to $1,675 since the beginning of the Great Recession to date — 2007 to 2013. The same is not being experienced those earning lower wages who saw their weekly wages fall by 9.4 percent or $278 to $252 according to Pew Research Analysis.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, the adult U.S. Latino population has lower rates of asthma than the general population (7.3 percent compared to 8.4 percent), but Latino children have higher than average rates for asthma, and those rates are escalating.
California's minimum wage has increased by $1, but residents are unsure about the decision. Latinos, however, are in favor increasing the state's minimum wage even further.
Job growth in the U.S. manufacturing sector has slowed while construction spending hardly increased in May. According to the Commerce Department, construction spending rose by 0.1 percent, but it is down compared to the 0.8 percent increase during April.
Known in Cuba as el bloqueo, the United States placed an embargo against Cuba on October 19, 1960, nearly two years after the Batista regime was deposed by the Cuban Revolution. Fifty years later, polls indicate that half of Cuban-Americans in Miami would change the United States' standing relations with Cuba.
National Public Radio's employee ethnicity rate is nearly identical to their listenership statistics. NPR Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos disclosed the company's ethnicity data following criticism of the cancellation of its diversity-focused talk show "Tell Me More."
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released data on the characteristics of uninsured men, notably within the Latino and African American communities.
According to a study by the Spanish National Research Council led by Spain's University of Cadiz and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, all of the oceans in the world have plastic debris on the surface.
