Immigration coalition advocates for DACA expansion and Obama Administration to move on his promises and commitments for immigration reform and Governors meet with HHS secretary regarding border children and placments.
The leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa announced in a joint statement the creation of their own development bank. The announcement was made after a plenary meeting of the five BRICS heads of state in Fortaleza, Brazil. Its funding aim will be infrastructure projects in developing nations, and they will begin lending in 2016.
New York lawmakers gathered at City Hall Tuesday to call for passage of the "Boss Bill," which would strengthen current workplace anti-discrimination laws in the state. The bill, (A.8769A/S.6578B), would close a loophole in the labor laws and protect worker's rights to access reproductive healthcare and services, shiled them from employer retaliation, and protect their right to privacy over their personal medical decisions.
New EEOC regulations updated the Pregnancy Discrimination Act from 30 years ago, saying it is illegal for employers to discriminate against mothers and mothers-to-be.
Immigration groups rallied in New York on Monday to press for the Obama administration to act on its promise for executive action on immigration reform. Latin Post spoke to New York Assemblyman Marcos Crespo about the breakdown in reform and about his recent visit to a facility caring for border children.
New York elected officials showed solidarity with Israel at City Hall while New Yorkers held a counter rally outside City Hall to show their solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza.
LULAC is trying to create cancer awareness among the Latino community. Latinos wait to long for testing, ignore their symptoms and are dying in record numbers.
LULAC's white paper on STEM education shows where Latinos are failing to keep up with the changing economy and recommendations for ways to improve the outcome.
The island's relationship with the United States is the subject of an ongoing debate in Puerto Rico, the U.S. and the United Nations as to whether it will remain a U.S. territory or become a U.S. state or an independent country. In a nonbinding referendum in 2012, Puerto Ricans voted 61 percent in favor of becoming a state.
The League of United Latin American Citizens announced at its 85th Convention in New York on Friday the 10 councils selected as beneficiaries of the Ford Driving Dreams through Education grants. The grants are given to councils who have created and implemented curriculum and programs to help keep young Latinos in high school.
Latin Post spoke to Margaret Moran, national president of the League of United Latino American Citizens, on Monday, the day before LULAC's National Convention and Exposition starts at the Hilton Hotel, in New York.
The United States Supreme Court said today closely-held corporations can exercise religious objections to women's reproductive choices under the government's health care law, the Affordable Care Act.
