New York State has often led other states through innovation over worker practices and policies. It was the first state to recognize the rights of domestic workers. But when it comes to pay it is lagging behind other states, and that is having a dire effect on families in the state.
Every day, 2,000 Latinos turn 18 years old in the United States, representing potentially new voters or a person that might be enchanted enough by politics to want to run for election.
Immigration reform watchers are questioning by the USCIS would post bid for a vendor to print millions of work authorization and permanent residency cards. President Obama has said he will take measure to reform immigration in November. Are the two linked agendas?
People will participate a day of action on Wednesday to demand a stop of police brutality in 30 cities across the United States. In New York, activists secured a permit to march from Union Square to Times Square but the NYPD won't let them cross 42nd Street. Activists have petitioned New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to intervene.
Less than a week after House Republicans demanded the Obama Administration call for an outright travel ban from three countries suffering from the Ebola epidemic, the Administration announces a restriction on which airports travelers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone can arrive.
The CDC is monitoring approximately 1,000 people for Ebola after two nurses contacted the Ebola virus from the Liberian man who died on Oct 9. The U.N. health agency declared Nigeria and Senegal Ebola free after no new cases have appeared for 42 days. The U.S. has requested advanced biological labs to ramp up production of the experimental Ebola treatment, ZMapp.
The U.S. Labor Department said Thursday weekly applications for unemployment aid fell another 23,000 to a seasonally adjusted 264,000, the lowest level of applications since April 2000.
Three weeks remain until the mid-term elections and 25.2 million Latinos are registered to vote. There are contentious Senate races in a number of states but few with large numbers of Latino voters. Election watchers are curious how this will affect voter turnout.
Two nurses are infected with the Ebola virus. A drug maker plans to start testing its experimental antiviral drug. Obama Administration appoints a 'czar' and the World Health Organization admitted in an internal report botched efforts to stop the spread of Ebola.
During four years of the Republican-led House, bills and amendments show a pervasive desire to curtail a woman's right to choose. Democratic elected officials and women's rights advocates are worried about a vulnerable Senate and another term of Republican-led House.
The two nurses infected with Ebola after treating a Liberian man who died of the disease are transferred to biohazard facilities. House of Representatives held a committee hearing Thursday concerned U.S. hospitals are not ready and healthcare workers not properly trained or equipped.
A FOIA request found New York City shelled out hundreds of millions of dollars in settlement cases when New York Police Department was a named defendant. The list doesn't include a large settlement of $41 million announced this year over the Central Park Five jogger case and the list requires further analysis but the list is troubling.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) candidates are renewing their applications to avoid deportation, but with President Obama's failure to introduce executive action or back legislative reform, their future is uncertain as there are no obvious next steps to citizenship.
Texas Department of State Health Services announced Wednesday a second person, a healthcare worker, has tested positive for the Ebola virus, and is isolated at Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
Sixty-eight immigrant detainees held at the Artesia Family Residential Center in New Mexico have been released, and more than a dozen were deported last week.
In another surprise intervention, the U.S. Supreme Court suspended on Tuesday a federal appeals court ruling that allowed Texas to enforce a law that required abortion clinics to upgrade their facilities to hospital level, according to the Associated Press.
Global food waste stands at 2.8 trillion pounds a year -- created by farmers, supermarkets and humans alike -- all along the food chain. In the U.S. more than 30 percent of the food isn't eaten, Elizabeth Royte said, author of "The High Cost Of Food Waste."
A WHO official said at a press conference on Tuesday there could be up to 10,000 new cases of Ebola per week within two months. Dr. Bruce Aylward said for the last four weeks there have been 1,000 new cases per week -- a figure that includes suspected, confirmed and probable cases -- and if response isn't stepped up within 60 days, "a lot more people will die."
Presidents of the three nations suffering from an Ebola outbreak demanded urgent help at a meeting of the IMF and World Bank - they need doctors, nurses and hospital beds. The Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security announced five US airports will check travelers coming from the three countries by interviewing them and taking their temperature. 150 people from the three countries come into the US daily, and 95 percent through the airports in Atlanta, Chicago, New York, New Jersey, New York, and Washington, DC
Seattle will recognize Indigenous People's Day on Columbus Day on Monday by signing it into law. Minneapolis recognized it earlier this year, and efforts are afoot to change the name of the national holiday because it has painful associations for indigenous peoples.
Voters in Wisconsin and Texas for the moment are protected from voting ID laws that would have affecting their ability to vote in the November elections. But activists say the lack of concise instructions on voting rights is creating a roller coaster of expensive lawsuits fighting legal changes and voter harassment.
The largest online Latino organizing, Presente Action, is stepping up its education campaign to run radio ads in key battleground states. The first ads to run on Spanish FM radio target Senator Kay Hagan in North Carolina for anti-immigrant vote. Does the group think their actions will risk seat loses and lead to a Republican majority Senate - they say they are between a rock and a hard place but they want to exercise their right to vote but reject both parties for turning their backs on immigrants.
Latest unemployment figures from the Labor Department show less people are applying with a fourth straight week that applications have been below 300,000.
New York City council voted to allocate $6 million to programs concerned with domestic violence. According to police statistics the number of calls made about domestic violence incidents has increased by 17,000
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled against the government on Monday over its mandatory detention provision which prevents certain noncitizens from requesting release on bond during their immigration proceedings.
