Pending legislation in Arizona would criminalize the presence of illegal immigrants through the expansion of its trespassing law and task police with determining residents’ immigration status.
Continue Reading ››Investing in advocacy can yield major benefits for poor communities. A new study finds that for every dollar funneled toward advocacy efforts, residents in Los Angeles reaped $91 in benefits.
Continue Reading ››A study measuring health and well-being ranked the McAllen metro area near the bottom among U.S. cities for basic access to a healthy life.
Continue Reading ››The immigration debate is heating up. In Austin, Tx., hundreds gathered to demand legal recognition and comprehensive immigration reform.
Continue Reading ››Low-wage workers in South Florida won an important battle when Dade County lawmakers outlawed wage theft, enabling workers to sue for failure to pay.
Continue Reading ››Despite fits and starts, a national ‘green economy’ is growing. Ian Kim, director of Ella Baker’s Green Collar Jobs campaign in Oakland, explains why.
Continue Reading ››“It will not be easy, but it will come,” Rep. Xavier Becerra assures a crowd gathered in Los Angeles to press for immigration reform.
Continue Reading ››How to reach troubled youth? Community groups like Enlace in Chicago utilize peer counselors who have struggled with gang life and similar experiences.
Continue Reading ››After months of hard work, seven families receive keys to family homes they helped build themselves.
Continue Reading ››An elderly woman tells of leaving her home in Mexico out of desperation for her family, as a senator’s aide listens quietly.
Continue Reading ››An elderly woman tells of leaving her home in Mexico out of desperation for her family, as a senator’s aide listens quietly.
Continue Reading ››More than half of the 44,000 residents in Pilsen were uncounted in the last U.S. Census. But this year community organizers are working to change those numbers.
Continue Reading ››California’s budget proposes cuts to programs for those in dire need: the elderly, disabled and impoverished families with no safety net.
Continue Reading ››How much has inflation affected wages? In Georgia, service-industry are living on $2.13 an hour – a rate that hasn’t increased since 1991.
Continue Reading ››A coalition of farmers in New Mexico is lobbying to pass a bill protecting them from liability for uncontrollable events, such as the natural cross-pollination of patented seeds.
Continue Reading ››Local activists with Border Action Network, an immigration advocacy group are headed to Washington, D.C. to join a march expected to draw 100,000 for immigration reform.
Continue Reading ››A bill mandating good-faith mediation efforts between Washington state banks and borrowers passed in a voice vote, but failed when it came time to publicly support the legislation.
Continue Reading ››Hands tied by current legislation, Hildago County commissioners call for immigration reform to support all tax-payers, and note that immigrants contribute $400 million to Texas’s economy.
Continue Reading ››Farmworkers in Florida petitioned Gov. Charlie Crist to receive benefits comparable to growers affected by abnormally low temperatures. Gov. Crist has yet to respond.
Continue Reading ››Civil rights groups charge that without investigatory power, police oversight in Spokane is little more than toothless public relations.
Continue Reading ››Can’t buy a house in Hiladgo County? Call Proyecto Aztca, a self-help housing group that scoops up foreclosed lots and helps families in need build homes on the land.
Continue Reading ››Advocates for immigration reform are frustrated and impatient with the lack of action they see from President Obama.
Continue Reading ››Competing for part of Obama’s $210 million Promise Neighborhoods funding, three Chicago organizations place parent involvement front-and-center.
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