Eric Rodriguez

Even by Washington standards, the National Organization for Marriage's (NOM) unmasked strategy to drive a wedge between blacks and Latinos on one side and the LGBT community on the other is stunningly cynical. In a series of documents obtained last week by the Human Rights Campaign in a...

For several months, we have been bracing for an attack on immigrant families who earn the Child Tax Credit. Over the past few days, Republican lawmakers have made clear that no matter is too urgent or too serious for them to resist going back to the anti-immigrant playbook...

Last legislative session, the Florida state legislature passed a bill that dramatically overhauled Florida's election laws. The sweeping changes in that law represent a direct assault on voting rights in Florida precisely at a time when Americans, embattled by the economic downturn of recent years, are striving to be heard...

In this country we cherish and value hard work, believing it to be dignified and worthy of recognition and respect. In the United States labor market, millions of workers, many of whom are Latino, are working hard for low wages -- holding down jobs that offer no benefits, no safety...

Voters in the midterm elections sent a clear directive to Congress to tackle unemployment, and Democrats and Republicans fervently reaffirmed their commitment to get Americans back to work. But the last three weeks have made it clear that years of disappointing jobs reports, anger from unemployed...

The economy and jobs were top concerns of Latinos who voted in Tuesday's midterm elections, according to new data from an election night poll conducted by Latino Decisions in eight states where high Latino voter turnout was critical to election outcomes. Nearly half (48%) of Hispanic voters ranked...

Latino youth are coming of age at a time when anti-immigrant and anti-Hispanic sentiment is high and rising. The environment in which we raise our children matters. Blatant discrimination, racial profiling, and ethnic stereotyping have consequences for young people.

A new study released yesterday by NCLR shows...

Reports of the recession ending do not mean that we're well on our way to recovery. Black and Latino workers know this well. In our communities, the economic crisis has hit hard, and it is unrelenting. According to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 12.4%...

Compelling evidence shows that the same poorly conceived and badly implemented enforcement strategies that have led to national outrage around Arizona's SB 1070 have received little attention as state-level enforcement programs in the form of the federal law known as 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality...

Early this morning, lawmakers finalized the banking reform bill. The "Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010" is a great victory for consumers, who will now have vastly improved protections against predatory lending. The bill also contains very strong and much-needed foreclosure assistance. This is an historic piece...

Most families we talk to aren't following the debate over derivatives or the Volker Rule. True, these are important areas of the banking reform effort. However, many average Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, and many are without a job entirely. For them, banking reform will mean little if the...

When the Senate recently passed the banking reform bill, "Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010" (S. 3217), it included a strong combination of improvements to our financial system. That bill had overcome some major hurdles, not the least of which is a penchant for legislative inertia in...