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U.S. Food Culture Proves Difficult Hurdle For Hispanic Mothers

VOXXI | Hope Gillette | Posted 01.02.2013 | Latino Voices
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Hispanic mothers, especially those in urban and low-income areas and who have recently migrated to the U.S., have difficulty adapting to the food cult...

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Let's Give Our Children a More Certain Future This Holiday Season

Bruce Lesley | Posted 02.21.2013 | Politics
Read More: Public Opinion Strategies, Child Poverty, Children's Health Insurance Program, Earned Income Tax Credit, Children, Child Tax Credit, Hispanic Children, Fiscal Cliff, Head Start, Poll, Medicaid, Lake Research Partners, Student Loans, Politics News
Bruce Lesley

The budget and impending sequestration clearly do not align with our children's needs, and what voters want. Kids and their families deserve better. Let's hold our lawmakers accountable. Contact your representative and tell them to keep kids off the table.

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Why I Tell My Multiracial Children To ALWAYS Check The 'Latino' Box

Allena Tapia | Posted 06.12.2012 | Parents
Read More: Kids and Ethnicity, Multiracial Children, Affirmative Action, Multiracial Kids Standardized Tests, Kids and Race, Parents-Kids, Hispanic Children, Multiracial Kids, Latino Children, Parents-Moms, Latino Box, Ethnicity and Applications, Parents News
Allena Tapia

Am I saying that because I'm white, my children are somehow "smarter than" or more academically gifted than their fully Latino peers? Nope. Instead, what I am doing here is admitting to the cultural capital I have, as a white person who is navigating a system (college entry, or etc.) made by other white people for other white people.

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More, Better Early Education Could Help Close California's Achievement Gap

| Sarah Garland | Posted 12.27.2011 | Home
Read More: Los Angeles Schools, California Preschools, California, Castro Family Childcare, Achievement Gap, Hispanic Children, Hispanic Students, First-Generation Immigrant Students, Los Angeles Universal Preschool, Video, Early Education, Latino Achievement Gap, Rand Corporation, Preschool California, California Schools, White-Hispanic-Achievement-Gap, California Early Education, Latino Students, California Education, Home News

This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. This is the third of a three-part series. Read the first piece, English-Learning Students F...

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More, Better Early Education Could Help Close California's Achievement Gap

| Sarah Garland | Posted 01.10.2012 | Home
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This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. This is the third of a three-part series. Read the first piece, English-Learning Students F...

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Model UN Program Inspires Underprivileged Kids

Posted 12.12.2011 | Latino Voices
Read More: Latinos, Underprivileged Children, Hispanic Children, Model Un, Latino, Cultura, Hispanics, Hispanic Heritage Month, Video, Latino Voices News

Protests ensue across America as unemployment continues. Europe teeters on the brink of financial ruin. Genocide in the Sudan and Darfur leave thousan...

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Largest Group Of America's Poor Children Not White For First Time Ever

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 11.29.2011 | Business
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The largest group of poor children isn’t white for the first time in U.S. history, according to a Pew report released Wednesday. There were 6.1 ...

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Andrea Stone

Census: America Quickly Moving Toward White-Minority Nation

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 06.05.2011 | Politics
Read More: 2010 Census, 2010 Census Racial Gap, Asian Population America, Segregation, Asians, Racial Generation Gap, Hispanic Population America, Hispanic Children, Immigration, White Population America, White Children, Hispanics, Arizona Immigration Law, Race, New Minorities, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A new analysis of 2010 Census data suggests that America might be become a white-minority nation faster than once predicted. The dat...

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An Entire Generation at Stake

Janet Murguía | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Population Reference Bureau, Poverty, Latinos, Children, Credit Programs, Economic Health, Early Childhood Education Programs, Opportunities, Obese-Children, Social Well-Being, Hispanic Children, Congress, Immigration System, Juvenile Justice System, U.S. Citizens, American Dream, Reformed Juvenile Justice System, Success, Education, Graduate From High School, U.S. Population, Health Insurance, Adult Jails, Political Power, Health Care, Fair Housing, Diversity, Politics News
Janet Murguía

Today, more than one-fourth of Latino children live in poverty. Three-fifths live in low-income families. One in five does not have health insurance. Only 55% graduate from high school.

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