Meet Líderes Summit Staff member: Erica Ruiz!
“My name is Erica Ruiz, and I’m from Stockton California. I was blessed to be born to a hardworking family who used to migrate from California to Mexico every...
AltaMed’s Escalera Program: A Powerful Resource for Latino Students
Faced with steep budget cuts, nonprofits’ leadership team steps up to save valuable program. By Special to EGP Jose Fuentes-Arteaga refused to be another high school dropout statistic. He...
A Face in the Crowd: Who is the 21st Century Student?
Hispanics will account for 95 percent of the teen population growth in the United States through 2020, according to research from Spanish-language media giant Univision. In addition, the 2010...
Meet Líderes YAC member: Carolina Gamero!
Carolina Gamero’s passion for social justice began because of one sociology professor during her sophomore year at college. Nearly two years later, she is preparing to complete her Bachelor’s...
America’s Low-Wage Latino Workers Deserve Dignity and Respect
In this country we cherish and value hard work, believing it to be dignified and worthy of recognition and respect. In the United States labor market, millions of workers,...
Don’t Text and Drive
You know the scene well. You are driving along in your car, and you get a text message from your best friend. Now, expert texter that you are, with cell...
New Report on the Economic Value of 171 College Majors Links College Majors to Earnings
WASHINGTON, May 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A new study confirms that Hispanics make less—in some cases, much less—than their White and Asian counterparts, no matter what their undergraduate major....