http://www.hispanictips.com A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos Thu, 15 May 2008 20:04:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/us-trained-forces-reportedly-helping-mexican-cartels/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/us-trained-forces-reportedly-helping-mexican-cartels/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 19:21:24 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/us-trained-forces-reportedly-helping-mexican-cartels/ "As many as 200 U.S.-trained Mexican security personnel have defected to drug cartels to carry out killings on both sides of the border and as far north as Dallas, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, told Congress on Wednesday.

The renegade members of Mexico's elite counter-narcotics teams trained at Fort Benning, Ga., have switched sides, contributing to a wave of violence that has claimed some 6,000 victims over the past 30 months, including prominent law enforcement leaders, the Houston-area Republican told the House Foreign Affairs Committee." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/us-trained-forces-reportedly-helping-mexican-cartels/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/as-drug-violence-intensifies-some-mexican-police-chiefs-seek-asylum-in-us-dallas-morning-news-news-for-dallas-texas-mexico-news/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/as-drug-violence-intensifies-some-mexican-police-chiefs-seek-asylum-in-us-dallas-morning-news-news-for-dallas-texas-mexico-news/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 19:21:06 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/as-drug-violence-intensifies-some-mexican-police-chiefs-seek-asylum-in-us-dallas-morning-news-news-for-dallas-texas-mexico-news/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/as-drug-violence-intensifies-some-mexican-police-chiefs-seek-asylum-in-us-dallas-morning-news-news-for-dallas-texas-mexico-news/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/feds-grapple-with-backlog-for-citizenship-arizona-focus/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/feds-grapple-with-backlog-for-citizenship-arizona-focus/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 19:14:50 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/feds-grapple-with-backlog-for-citizenship-arizona-focus/ "Immigration officials in Phoenix are churning out record numbers of new U.S. citizens, with as many as 2,000 to be sworn in this month alone.

The push is part of a national effort to chip away at a mountain of backlogged applications, including many thousands from immigrants who had hoped to vote in November. Despite the increase in naturalizations, however, critics say the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is not working fast enough, so many immigrants won't become citizens in time to vote.

"Instead of people being able to participate in democracy, they are being caught up in the red tape of bureaucracy," said Monica Sandschafer, head organizer of Arizona ACORN, a grass-roots organization that holds citizenship classes. " HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/feds-grapple-with-backlog-for-citizenship-arizona-focus/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/hispanic-jobless-rate-shows-vulnerability-unemployment-among-us-hispanics-has-risen-faster-than-other-groups/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/hispanic-jobless-rate-shows-vulnerability-unemployment-among-us-hispanics-has-risen-faster-than-other-groups/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 16:57:05 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/hispanic-jobless-rate-shows-vulnerability-unemployment-among-us-hispanics-has-risen-faster-than-other-groups/ "Unemployment among U.S. Hispanics has risen faster than other groups, underscoring their vulnerability in the U.S. economy, analysts said.

Home ownership had risen to 50 percent among Hispanics before the mortgage credit crisis began to unfold last summer, USA Today reported Thursday.

A deteriorating home equity market, rising foreclosures and Hispanic workers' dependence on construction jobs has decreased remittances sent to families in Latin America, the report said." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/hispanic-jobless-rate-shows-vulnerability-unemployment-among-us-hispanics-has-risen-faster-than-other-groups/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/george-de-lama-steps-down-as-chicago-tribune-managing-editor-for-news-chicagotribunecom/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/george-de-lama-steps-down-as-chicago-tribune-managing-editor-for-news-chicagotribunecom/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 12:35:49 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/george-de-lama-steps-down-as-chicago-tribune-managing-editor-for-news-chicagotribunecom/ "George de Lama, the Chicago Tribune managing editor for news and the first Latino ever to appear on the newspaper's masthead, announced today he is leaving the paper after 30 years.

His successor will be Hanke Gratteau, who in March was elevated to deputy managing editor for news from associate managing editor for metropolitian news.

"His wisdom, humor and passion have been the source of great inspiration for me and this newsroom," Chicago Tribune Editor Ann Marie Lipinski said in a note to the newsroom. "He remains my dear friend but I will miss him, and not just a little." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/george-de-lama-steps-down-as-chicago-tribune-managing-editor-for-news-chicagotribunecom/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/14/careless-detention-some-detainees-are-drugged-for-deportation-immigrants-sedated-without-medical-reason/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/14/careless-detention-some-detainees-are-drugged-for-deportation-immigrants-sedated-without-medical-reason/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 16:44:12 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/14/careless-detention-some-detainees-are-drugged-for-deportation-immigrants-sedated-without-medical-reason/ "The government's forced use of antipsychotic drugs, in people who have no history of mental illness, includes dozens of cases in which the "pre-flight cocktail," as a document calls it, had such a potent effect that federal guards needed a wheelchair to move the slumped deportee onto an airplane.

"Unsteady gait. Fell onto tarmac," says a medical note on the deportation of a 38-year-old woman to Costa Rica in late spring 2005. Another detainee was "dragged down the aisle in handcuffs, semi-comatose," according to an airline crew member's written account. Repeatedly, documents describe immigration guards "taking down" a reluctant deportee to be tranquilized before heading to an airport." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/14/careless-detention-some-detainees-are-drugged-for-deportation-immigrants-sedated-without-medical-reason/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/14/demand-for-guatemalan-children-is-so-high-baby-snatching-is-rampant/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/14/demand-for-guatemalan-children-is-so-high-baby-snatching-is-rampant/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 16:02:31 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/14/demand-for-guatemalan-children-is-so-high-baby-snatching-is-rampant/ "With tens of thousands of dollars to be made on the sale of each child, and with little government regulation, a fertile black market has developed to sell children all over the world, especially the United States.

Children are routinely kidnapped and parents regularly coerced to sell their children, say government officials and human rights activists.

One in every 100 Guatemalan children is adopted by an American family, the highest per capita adoption rate in the world, and 95 percent of all Guatemalan children who are adopted go to the U.S. The U.S. State Department says approximately 29,400 Guatemalan children have been adopted by Americans since 1990, and local sources peg the average cost at $30,000 per child." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/14/demand-for-guatemalan-children-is-so-high-baby-snatching-is-rampant/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/14/whats-next-for-postville-update-near-400-arrested-town-may-dry-up-iowa/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/14/whats-next-for-postville-update-near-400-arrested-town-may-dry-up-iowa/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 13:32:23 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/14/whats-next-for-postville-update-near-400-arrested-town-may-dry-up-iowa/ "Postville was already a small town of 2,300 before the raid. Now city officials say many people are fleeing in fear, not to mention the near 400 plant workers detained.

More than a third of the workers at the city's largest business are gone. Without those workers many fear Agriprocessors will shut down. If that happens, the mayor says 95% of the shops here will dry up. Petrona Garcia's convenience store is the only Hispanic business in town with customers the day after the raid.

"All the shops are closed. Not one is open. No one even comes to them," said Petrona Garcia, business owner." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/14/whats-next-for-postville-update-near-400-arrested-town-may-dry-up-iowa/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/california-assembly-speaker-fabian-nunez-leaves-the-speakers-post/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/california-assembly-speaker-fabian-nunez-leaves-the-speakers-post/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 17:16:00 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/california-assembly-speaker-fabian-nunez-leaves-the-speakers-post/ "Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez, the gardener's son who rose from a San Diego barrio to one of California's most powerful posts, leaves office Tuesday having arguably fulfilled a vow he made when he was sworn in four years ago: to renew his chamber's prestige as "the house of ideas."

But by many accounts, the Los Angeles Democrat and former labor leader failed to keep another pledge: to restore citizens' faith in government." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/california-assembly-speaker-fabian-nunez-leaves-the-speakers-post/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/contemporary-latin-musical-in-the-heights-gets-13-tony-nominations/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/contemporary-latin-musical-in-the-heights-gets-13-tony-nominations/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 16:28:38 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/contemporary-latin-musical-in-the-heights-gets-13-tony-nominations/ "A contemporary musical infused with Latin rhythms edged out a musical-theater classic in the battle for nominations for the 62nd annual Tony Awards, the prize created to honor the best of Broadway.

In the Heights, a warm-hearted Latin/hip-hop musical set in a Spanish-speaking neighborhood of New York, collected 13 nominations, compared to 11 for a sumptuous revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific.

In a season marked by strong re-stagings of musical-theater favorites, a revival of Sunday in the Park With George won nine nominations, while a revival of Gypsy amassed seven." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/contemporary-latin-musical-in-the-heights-gets-13-tony-nominations/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/more-than-marches-growing-latino-power-is-all-about-the-demographics/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/more-than-marches-growing-latino-power-is-all-about-the-demographics/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 16:10:01 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/more-than-marches-growing-latino-power-is-all-about-the-demographics/ "Between 2000 and 2007 the nation's Latino population grew from 35.7 million to 45.5 million, an impressive 27 percent jump. Even more significant was that, in the last two years, 62 percent of this growth has been through births, not immigration. In other words, to those who would rather that the newcomers just go home: Sorry. Too late. This is home!

Are these numbers a good thing or a bad thing? Well, like everything else, it depends.

Writing from my particular vantage point as a 52 year old baby boomer, these Latino numbers look pretty good. It turns out that the average white in America is 40.8 years old and the average Hispanic is 27.8 years old. Dowell Myers points out that currently there are some 23 seniors for every 100 workers. However in 20 years (when I am 72) the ratio will have changed drastically to 41 seniors for every 100 workers! The answer to the old Beatles song about who will feed me when I'm 64 is already clear -- Latino immigrants and their children. In addition, undocumented immigrants pay an estimated $7 -8 billion a year into the Social Security Trust Fund -- money they rarely collect -- and a recent report by the Social Security Administration credits them with reducing the long term deficit by 15 percent. Speaking as an aging boomer, these young Latinos look great to me." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/more-than-marches-growing-latino-power-is-all-about-the-demographics/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/us-obesity-rates-alarmingly-high-study-found-66-of-hispanics-were-overweight-and-33-to-50-were-obese/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/us-obesity-rates-alarmingly-high-study-found-66-of-hispanics-were-overweight-and-33-to-50-were-obese/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 15:14:00 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/us-obesity-rates-alarmingly-high-study-found-66-of-hispanics-were-overweight-and-33-to-50-were-obese/ "New research shows "alarming levels" of obesity in most ethnic groups in the United States, principal investigator Dr. Gregory L. Burke, of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina told Reuters Health. The study also confirms the potentially deadly toll obesity exacts on the heart and blood vessels.

"The obesity epidemic has the potential to reduce further gains in U.S. life expectancy, largely through an effect on cardiovascular disease mortality (death)," Burke and colleagues warn in the latest issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

Among 6,814 middle-age or older adults participating in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, or "MESA" study, researchers found that more than two thirds of white, African American and Hispanic participants were overweight and one third to one half were obese.

" HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/us-obesity-rates-alarmingly-high-study-found-66-of-hispanics-were-overweight-and-33-to-50-were-obese/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/hundreds-arrested-in-immigration-raid-at-postville-plant-iowa-largest-in-the-history-of-state/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/hundreds-arrested-in-immigration-raid-at-postville-plant-iowa-largest-in-the-history-of-state/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 15:05:19 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/hundreds-arrested-in-immigration-raid-at-postville-plant-iowa-largest-in-the-history-of-state/ "Federal Immigration agents on Monday arrested more than 300 people in Postville during a raid at the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant.

The raid by agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was the largest in Iowa history, said Matt M. Dummermuth, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Iowa.

Dummermuth said the raid at the Agriprocessors Inc. plant in northeast Iowa came after months of planning, beginning in October 2007. Federal agents were helped by state and local police. " HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/hundreds-arrested-in-immigration-raid-at-postville-plant-iowa-largest-in-the-history-of-state/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/for-hispanics-in-us-a-dream-is-going-sour-along-with-the-economic-downturn-dare-i-say-recession/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/for-hispanics-in-us-a-dream-is-going-sour-along-with-the-economic-downturn-dare-i-say-recession/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 14:42:32 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/for-hispanics-in-us-a-dream-is-going-sour-along-with-the-economic-downturn-dare-i-say-recession/ "The economic downturn unfolding across the United States is imposing a particularly punishing toll on Hispanics, a group that was among the primary beneficiaries of the expansion in recent years. What had been a story of broad and steady advances has given way to growing joblessness, diminishing paychecks and lost homes.

The boom in American housing generated millions of new jobs for those willing to engage in physically demanding tasks, from factory work churning out floorboards, carpeting and upholstery, to landscaping, roofing and janitorial services. Latinos occupied widening swaths of these trades and filled large numbers of relatively high-paying construction jobs.

As a great influx of Latino immigrants spread beyond the initial entryways of the Southwest into smaller cities and towns across the South and the Midwest, many found employment doing much of the unpleasant work shunned by those with better prospects." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/for-hispanics-in-us-a-dream-is-going-sour-along-with-the-economic-downturn-dare-i-say-recession/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/usa-judo-coach-bridges-two-cultures-israel-hernandez/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/usa-judo-coach-bridges-two-cultures-israel-hernandez/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 17:24:28 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/usa-judo-coach-bridges-two-cultures-israel-hernandez/ "Israel Hernandez has felt a strange stew of emotions simmering in his gut. He came to Miami to coach against his former comrades on the Cuban judo team. But he also came to reunite with them, to share beers and memories. He came to beat them, and to embrace them.

Hernandez has done both. On Friday, his athlete Valerie Gotay upset Cuban world champion Yurileidys Lupetey and went on to win the Pan American Championships gold medal." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/usa-judo-coach-bridges-two-cultures-israel-hernandez/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/cuban-defectors-adjust-to-a-new-life/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/cuban-defectors-adjust-to-a-new-life/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 17:19:35 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/cuban-defectors-adjust-to-a-new-life/ "Under a sunny sky on a manicured soccer field, the drill was repeated over and over for 15 minutes. Maykel Galindo would settle a cross just outside the top of the penalty area, then try to figure out a way to put the ball past the man in goal." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/cuban-defectors-adjust-to-a-new-life/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/immigration-themed-movies-are-riding-high/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/immigration-themed-movies-are-riding-high/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 16:35:15 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/immigration-themed-movies-are-riding-high/ "This boomlet in immigration stories has been building over the past several years. The 2004 film "Maria Full of Grace," about a Colombian drug mule's attempts to make it in the wilds of Queens, was a Sundance Film Festival prize winner, and its lead actress, Catalina Sandino Moreno, was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. In 2005, "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" followed an undocumented Mexican worker who died in an accident and the attempts by his boss to bury him in his native village.

"Babel" (2006) featured a heart-rending segment about a Mexican woman who returns home to attend her son's wedding, but finds she cannot re-enter the U.S.

"These films are important," says Calixto Chinchilla, executive director of the New York International Latino Film Festival. "They shed a light on Latino immigrants who want to migrate to the U.S."" HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/immigration-themed-movies-are-riding-high/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/mexicans-conquer-us-meth-trade-while-methamphetamine-labs-in-the-us-were-being-busted-mexican-drug-gangs-ramped-up-their-operations/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/mexicans-conquer-us-meth-trade-while-methamphetamine-labs-in-the-us-were-being-busted-mexican-drug-gangs-ramped-up-their-operations/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 15:20:17 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/mexicans-conquer-us-meth-trade-while-methamphetamine-labs-in-the-us-were-being-busted-mexican-drug-gangs-ramped-up-their-operations/ "A U.S. crackdown on domestic methamphetamine labs has created opportunities for Mexican drug cartels and their ''superlabs'' to fill the void.

Law enforcement agencies now consider ''meth'' produced in Mexico to be the greatest drug menace in the Western United States and a growing concern across the southeast and mid-Atlantic states, according to a Department of Justice report released this year.

Mexican drug gangs now produce 80 percent of the methamphetamine consumed in the United States, and Mexican officials say the Mexican manufacturers have become adept at meeting the shifting demands of U.S. addicts." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/mexicans-conquer-us-meth-trade-while-methamphetamine-labs-in-the-us-were-being-busted-mexican-drug-gangs-ramped-up-their-operations/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/switch-to-espanol-about-spanish-news-coverage-vs-english-a-good-read-the-spanish-language-tv-broadcasts-are-for-lack-of-a-better-word-more-american/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/switch-to-espanol-about-spanish-news-coverage-vs-english-a-good-read-the-spanish-language-tv-broadcasts-are-for-lack-of-a-better-word-more-american/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 15:11:39 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/switch-to-espanol-about-spanish-news-coverage-vs-english-a-good-read-the-spanish-language-tv-broadcasts-are-for-lack-of-a-better-word-more-american/ ""There's no comparison in the coverage," says Josh Kun, a communications professor at the University of Southern California who closely follows Spanish TV. "For people here, there are two places to look for better news: BBC News and Spanish-language news."

Why the difference? As English-language news organizations -- desperate to stop the declines of their audiences and ad revenues -- cut back on news-gathering, they devote their time and resources to entertainment, celebrities, pets and crime (or, best of all, stories that combine all four). But Spanish-language TV producers, who serve a clearly defined, growing audience, have space to tackle weightier topics.

The result: The sharpest coverage of state and local issues -- government, politics, immigration, labor, economics, health care -- is now found on Spanish-language TV. They compete hard on serious stories. As a labor reporter for the Los Angeles Times in 2006, the only competitors I routinely saw at major union stories were reporters for KMEX, KVEA and La Opinion, a Spanish-language daily newspaper. These outlets tell their viewers more about how the state and the region work, they are more persistent in demanding explanations from public officials, and their reports routinely include more interviews with more sources from more perspectives.

The Spanish-language TV broadcasts are, for lack of a better word, more American.

They get ratings, too. KMEX's 6 p.m. program has ranked either first or second for years among newscasts in the market in any language; its 11 p.m. newscast leads the ratings among nearly every adult demographic. KVEA lags behind, but its audience is increasing. "There's such a thirst for news," says Maelia Macin, vice president and general manager of Univision's Los Angeles stations." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/12/switch-to-espanol-about-spanish-news-coverage-vs-english-a-good-read-the-spanish-language-tv-broadcasts-are-for-lack-of-a-better-word-more-american/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/09/pew-hispanic-center-factsheet-hispanic-women-in-the-united-states-2007/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/09/pew-hispanic-center-factsheet-hispanic-women-in-the-united-states-2007/#comments Fri, 09 May 2008 12:49:03 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/09/pew-hispanic-center-factsheet-hispanic-women-in-the-united-states-2007/ "There are 30.1 million Hispanic adults in the United States and 14.4 million of them--or 48%--are women, according to recent U.S. Census Bureau estimates. This fact sheet describes the demographic, employment and income characteristics of Hispanic women in the U.S. using data from the 2007 Current Population Survey and the 2006 American Community Survey. The findings reveal striking differences between Hispanic and non-Hispanic women, and native-born and immigrant Hispanic women from different countries of origin. " HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/09/pew-hispanic-center-factsheet-hispanic-women-in-the-united-states-2007/feed/