Showing up to work tired is just like showing up to work drunk
By Ashley Milne-Tyte During the last few decades the average American has lost and hour and a half of sleep per night. Sleep researchers at Harvard say the workplace is suffering to the tune of $63...
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New Report from the Council of Economic Advisers: The Recent Slowdown in...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed against a backdrop of decades of rapid growth in health care spending, and one of the ACA’s key goals was to root out serious inefficiencies in the United...
View ArticleIn State of the Union, Obama is Cautious on Immigration Reform
This week, President Obama urged Congress in his State of the Union address to fix our broken immigration system once and for all. And although the President made the call that Congress needed to act,...
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Small Businesses Owned by Latinos Fared Well in 2013 and Expect the Same in...
Startups/Small businesses owned by Hispanic have soared since 2002, jumping from a plucky 1.7 million to a notable 3.2 million in just a decade. The Hispanic-owned small business rises at an annual...
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Cuba: An Emerging Capitalistic Nation?
Clarissa Garcia, Staff Writer Imagine you are engaging in a conversation about countries and their economic standing. The nation of Cuba is mentioned; what is your input? Normally, one would respond by...
View ArticleLatinos Should Advocate for a Healthy Future this Earth Day
For many, Earth Day represents an opportunity to celebrate the planet, rejoice outdoors, and perhaps plant a tree. For us, however, this year’s drought has been a harsh reminder of the increasingly...
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El Peso Falters in Argentina
Clarissa Garcia, Staff Writer As are numerous Latin American countries, Argentina is also feeling the wrath of a weakening peso. But this has been occurring for what seems to be centuries now. The...
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Showdown between Metro Workers and Police Heats Up Days before World Cup
Carlos Vera, Staff Writer The strike by subway workers in São Paulo, Brazil, took a violent turn on Monday resulting in riot police firing tear gas in a central commuter station. Metro workers are...
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From Farm Workers To Landowners: New Minnesota Co-op Encouraging More Latino...
Carlos Vera, Staff Writer The state of Minnesota currently has about 69,000 farms; of those, only about 300 are owned by Hispanics. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2012 Census of...
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Germany, The New Land Of Opportunity
Carlos Vera, Staff Writer When Germany won the World Cup, some viewers were surprised to see the amount of diversity in a team that has players of African, Turkish, Arab and Polish descent. Germany’s...
View ArticleIn the Heart of Colombia’s Coca Country: Pilot Coca Crop-Substitution Program...
By Carl Vosloh Zea Latin America’s longest-running and bloodstained civil conflict between the Colombian government and Colombia’s left-wing rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) of...
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Trail to Austin bombing suspect combined high-tech and old-fashioned techniques
Three weeks of terror in central Texas ended before dawn Wednesday in a ditch at the side of an interstate outside Austin, with an explosion that killed a young man suspected in a string of deadly...
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McCabe authorized perjury investigation into Sessions
WASHINGTON — Andrew McCabe, as the FBI’s deputy director, authorized an investigation into whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied to Congress, three sources familiar with the matter told NBC...
View ArticleLatino advocacy group UnidosUS launches young voter registration campaign
WASHINGTON – UnidosUS, the Latino advocacy group that changed its name in part to be more relevant to millennials, is honing its efforts to register young Latinos during this year’s midterm elections....
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After veto threat, Trump signs spending bill — tells Congress never again
WASHINGTON — In a hastily announced event, President Donald Trump announced Friday afternoon that he had just signed a bill to fund the government “as a matter of national security,” hours after a...
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NATO’s AWACS give U.S. eyes in the sky over Syria
ABOARD A NATO AIRCRAFT — The smell of jet fuel flooded the cabin and a tremendous roar made it difficult to talk as a near-windowless military plane rumbled down a runway in southwestern Turkey....
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Trump tells aides not to talk publicly about Russia policy moves
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s national security advisers spent months trying to convince him to sign off on a plan to supply new U.S. weapons to Ukraine to aid in the country’s fight against...
View ArticleWhy the 2020 Democratic primary could turn into ‘Lord of the Flies’
The 2020 Democratic presidential race has just begun, but party insiders and strategists are running out of terms to capture the potential for chaos if several candidates raise enough money — and win...
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Meet The Women That Wants To Change The Way We Look At The Adult Industry
Look at yourself, what do you want to be? Who in your life is stopping you from being her? Remove them today! What do you need monetarily to fulfil your dream or goal? Have you made a plan? Write it...
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