Blogante Headlines for Wednesday - September 12th, 2007

I started a new category "Quotes" that I am going to have fun with.Plus, I just calculated that 16,000 minutes were spent by visitors on HispanicTips yesterday and to make me feel even better (in terms of marketing HispanicTips, you know "business stuff") I can equate that to 32,000 30-second commercials. What kind of impact could that make on a brand, I wonder? - Tomás

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Chiquita: $25M fine for terror payments

Linda Chavez-Thompson Steps Down From AFL-CIO

Self-Defined Hispanic Ethnic Groups Show Marked Differences

Houston taco truck owners sue over new regulations

Did You Know –» view: excerpts | section

Two thirds of Chilean workers earn less than 480 US dollars

The Mexican population in the United States climbed 37 percent between 2000 and 2006, with Pennsylvania and New Jersey substantially outpacing the national trend.

In Massachucetts, 91% of white students passed both MCAS exams on their first try, as did 73% of Black students, 90% of Asian students and 67% of Hispanic students.

The median earnings of an Anglo working full time is $31,769; for Hispanics the figure is $21,119. But the gender gap is more pronounced for Anglos ”” women make 76 cents compared to each dollar for men ”” versus the 88 cents on each dollar for Hispanic women versus their male counterparts. - Arizona

Nearly one out of every seven adult males in Arizona is not a U.S. citizen

Among $150k U.S. households, 6.5 million are white, 372k are Hispanic, 312k are African-American, and 527k are Asian

My Picks –» view: excerpts | section

“Southsourcing” from the Colbert Report on Comedy Central (made me laugh)

Shakira Not Getting Married: Studying at UCLA Instead

Another Legend Comes to the Land of 1000 Dances - Johnny Hernandez cruises Aztlan…again.

More than 50 years of Puerto Rican fine art is surveyed in “Puerto Rican Art: Image of a Culture” on view through Oct. 28 at the Orlando Museum of Art.

Union sues, seeking to stop some immigration raids - (Swift raids aftermath)

Azul, Yanina and Alex Cotton - (Argentinian Jews in Miami)

SHALIM ORTIZ DISCOVERS THAT LIFE FANTASTICALLY IMITATES ART ON “HEROES

Tossed off court, but still a victor - Cruz Reynoso

More Hispanic Jews are finding a home in South Florida

Immigrant: Judge told me to go home - Tennessee

Radio chef sizzles on air - Chef Martí­n Limas - Denver

What describes Latino identity? - Ruben Navarrette Jr.

2006 American Community Survey (source of the many articles today about changing demographics)

University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies Receives Major Federal Grant to Address Hispanic Health Issues

Quotes –» view: excerpts | section

QUOTE: Joe Pilotta notes. “Advertisers who have the courage to spend more in the Hispanic market might experience bigger returns than expected.”

QUOTE: “I’m very proud, first of all to be the first Latino ”” major Latino candidate to run for President,” said Bill Richardson, “I’m disappointed today that 43 million Latinos in this country, for them not to hear one of their own speak Spanish.”

QUOTE: “Despite all the discussion about immigration, most of the Hispanic growth in the United States, and certainly in the Chicago area, is coming from natural increase,” Johnson said. “So even if the borders were to be closed tomorrow, there’s so much momentum in the large number of young Hispanics in America now that the Hispanic population will continue to grow at a fairly rapid rate.”

Election 2008 –» view: excerpts | section

UM, Univisión still trying for GOP debate

The symbolic Spanish debate

QUOTE: “I’m very proud, first of all to be the first Latino ”” major Latino candidate to run for President,” said Bill Richardson, “I’m disappointed today that 43 million Latinos in this country, for them not to hear one of their own speak Spanish.”

The Republicans Flunk Spanish

Attention: Important News About Dems ‘Spanish’ Debates - Why All 2008 Presidential Candidates Better ‘Habla Espanol’

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