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Monday Miscellany
Monday, May 14th, 2007+ The poor get poorer. Bob reflects on this blog post from the Wall Street Journal (“Businesses Lure Working Poor Deeper Into Debt”) and this article from Business Week (“The Poverty Business: Inside U.S. companies’ audacious drive to extract more profits from the nation’s working poor.”) + Latinos give PBS a history lesson. Ruben Navarette [...]
Bario Shalom
Saturday, August 5th, 2006Peace + Love + Justice + Fiesta Latino churches have overnight found themselves surrounded by new middle-class ‘neighbors’ right in the barrio, while many of their members have been forced to move away from the communities where they have grown up all of their lives–because the can no longer afford to live there. The pastors [...]
Rudy has the cover of Prism magazine
Wednesday, September 7th, 2005His “Surfacing Hispanic Leaders†is the September-October cover story. Check it out here. (Thanks for the shout-out!)
Hispanics now one-seventh of U.S. population
Tuesday, July 5th, 2005Census Bureau estimates 41.3 million in fastest-growing ethnic bloc. … “Looking toward the future, we see a different face of the U.S. population,†said Audrey Singer, an immigration and census specialist at the Brookings Institution. “But I don’t think that’s necessarily new. It’s a confirmation that this hasn’t stopped or changed much.â€Â
Congrats, Cortes!
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005One of Generation Xcel’s primary funders the past two years has been the federal Compassion Capital Fund via Nueva Esperanza, a financial intermediary run by Rev. Luis Cortes of Philadelphia. Today’s New York Times profiles Esperanza in “Hispanic Group Thrives on Faith and Federal Aid”: “Although a national study of the compassion fund is still [...]
It’s Official
Thursday, February 3rd, 2005The top law enforcement officer in the land is Latino. Over the objections of 35 vocal Democrats and one nominal Independent, the Senate confirmed Alberto Gonzales on Thursday to be the nation’s next attorney general. Democrats who crossed party lines to vote for Gonzalez were Senators Lieberman (CT), Landrieu (LA), Pryor (AR), Nelson (FL), Nelson [...]
Evangelicals Influential?
Monday, January 31st, 2005Time magazine thinks so. Congratulations, all, especially Luis Cortes of Nueva Esperanza. Generation Xcel has received $80,000 in subgrants from Esperanza’s federal Compassion Capital Grant in the last two years.
What Does it Mean to be Latino?
Monday, January 31st, 2005My dad goofs on me because I claim to be Latino. He’s got a point, I guess, because (a) I don’t speak Spanish (well), (b) I look like a white boy, and (c) his wife, my mother, is about as northern European as Americans come — her parents both immigrated to the States from Norway. [...]