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Raise your money if you have sent money overseas. OK everyone put your hand down. We all have. Remittances are big money. In some countries the money we send back to our abuelas, tios and tias makes or breaks a country’s economy. Which is why any news about what companies are in this business is...+
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We not only need quality care we need culturally competent care. Which is why I loved Samuel Alcocer story. A moment of personal need was a rallying call to provide services to his community. One of his wisdom teeth had erupted into a throbbing, painful ache. At the time, Alcocer, a native of Santa Cruz...+
Civic Engagement
As we have mentioned before we love Latino Decisions As always they keep on coming up with new surveys and bring new insight to what and how we are thinking about. With forty-one questions about key policy issues and our opinions on current elected officials, there is a lot to parse out. Here are some...+
Policy
Well, the session is over and all the rulings are in. Some were heartbreaking, some expected, and much of it, particularly the decimation of the Voting Rights Act, was simply crazy-making. If you are really wonky, visit the Supreme Court website to read the rulings directly. Recent rulings in the right-hand column. Today’s DOMA and...+
Policy
It’s Supreme Court decision season and today’s ruling struck down a Voter ID Law in Arizona that would have required proof of citizenship during registration. Here’s Slate’s Emily Bazelon telling you why this is important: Alabama, Georgia and Kansas have laws just like Arizona’s. So those state laws also get thrown onto the garbage heap....+
Civic Engagement
Oh Senator Rubio forgive me. I am sure that as a child you were taunted by your peers by having your name continuously shouted out at the pool. The thing is you are loosing your center and you need to find it stat! Too many of us depend on it. After working with seven other senators in...+
Compton has a lot a problems. Problems most places have when you have poor working class folks live. The last thing a place like that needs is racial issues. Well it looks like the Compton Police Department and Unified School District did not get that memo. They where just slapped with a $40 million dollar suit....+
Civic Engagement
As the horrors of the Cleveland kidnapping case are starting to come out, we need to start asking the right questions. Not surprisingly, I am hearing the wrong questions: Wrong question: Why did the young women get in the car with Ariel Castro? Right question: Were the police trained to deal with a kidnapping scenario? And...+