November 18, 2009 By Ed Taylor The rapidly growing Hispanic community in Arizona is playing an increasing role in the economic and cultural life of the state, according to a study released Wednesday by the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. The report called "Datos 2009: Focus on Arizona's Hispanic ...

November 19, 2009 by Rob Gorrie The 2010 Census is nearly complete, and all marketers are on the edge of their seat waiting to see how the pie will break out. But while we wait, we should be doing much more than sitting - we should be preparing, since we already know what the upcoming Census will simply ...

Nov 19, 2009 By Marcelo Ballvé Organizers described them as immigration reform "house parties."   Across the country last night, in churches, schools, immigrant support centers and private homes, backers of immigration reform gathered around telephones (the speaker phone turning the device into a de-facto ...

Today I received a press release from the Census Bureau with the header, "Homes with Cell Phones Nearly Double in First Half of Decade." You can thank them for sending me down this rabbit trail... "Inquiring minds wanted to know" not only how HH cell phone ownership trended through time for Latinos, ...

Nov. 17, 2009 By Lee Davidson A new study says that six of the eight states that are expected to gain U.S. House seats from the 2010 Census — all except Utah and Georgia — would not receive them without recent population growth among Hispanics, which may make Latinos more politically powerful. And while ...

November 17, 2009 Via The Associated Press More Americans are playing tennis, with Hispanics and blacks showing a marked increase. The U.S. Tennis Association says in a survey released Tuesday that more than 30 million people hit the courts this year. That's a 12 percent increase from 2008 and up 25 ...

Nov. 17, 2009 Via PRNewswire-USNewswire The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service (USDA) reported yesterday that almost one in four children living in the United States are food insecure. According to the 2009 report on Household Food Insecurity in the United States, there is a ...

November 17, 2009 By TALI ARBEL The strongest American advocates for smoking bans in public venues are the newest Americans, one study said. Immigrants and their children were most likely to approve of smoke-free spaces, according to an analysis of data from the U.S. Census' Current Population Survey ...

November 17, 2009 By Sandra Bernardo Many of you may have watched the recent report by Maria Shriver on NBC titled “A Woman’s Nation,” which addresses changes in our nation’s social and economic history due to the emergence of working women. Now half of U.S. workers are female – and mothers have become ...

Nov 16th 2009 by Jeff Mays I once lived in a building with a superintendent who was Dominican. He was the best super I've ever had. If there was a problem, he showed up when he said he would and did what he could to help me out. Anyone who's ever lived in New York City knows that's not always the case. ...