THURSDAY | FEBRUARY 23, 2012
Colonia Residents Seeing the Light
For eight years residents have been working for the installation of streetlights in their colonias to light up the streets at night. The vast majority of Hidalgo County’s more than one thousand colonias lack streetlights. Without adequate lighting, children cannot safely go out and play in the evenings. Their confinement contributes to health issues including [...]
Wage War: Employers Stealing Millions from US Workers
Kathy Mulady | Equal Voice News
February 8, 2012
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MIAMI – Workers nationwide are losing millions of dollars each week to wage theft as their employers, some unscrupulous, others scrambling to keep their businesses afloat, fail to pay the mandated minimum wage or overtime wages, or, in some cases, don’t pay their employees at all. Wage theft is [...]
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Texas Organizing Project members are celebrating a victory for Houston neighborhoods after securing an agreement with Mayor Annise Parker that will dedicate $60 million of Hurricane Ike Recovery Funds to repair single-family homes. The victory was sealed Dec. 6, after a unanimous vote from the Houston City Council. The historic vote comes on the heels [...]
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Midterm Elections: Families Will Determine The Outcome
Claudia Rowe | Equal Voice News
September 16, 2010
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Mathematically, it looks straightforward. A simple scorecard with 37 governors’ jobs up for grabs, 37 seats in the U.S. Senate, and 435 seats in the House of Representatives. But the way those numbers fall in the November election will define political control – and the lives of ordinary families [...]
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In the dusty Arizona desert, a young man wearing only one shoe limps toward a group of college students. Thirsty and bleeding, he begs for help. He has trudged for 12 miles, all the way from the Mexican border, and says he has never made this trip before, doesn’t [...]
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The Invisible Millions: Going Door-To-Door To Find The Uncounted
By Tim Appelo | Equal Voice
March 4, 2010
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When the government announces a fact or figure, be it a complex budget forecast or simple school enrollment, conventional wisdom holds that the numbers are, more or less, accurate. Not so with the U.S. Census – at least, not in the past. In 2000, more than 3 million [...]
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