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		<title>Inside Hispanic America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Claudia &#8220;Havi&#8221; Goffan Winner of the Publisher&#8217;s Multicultural Award Category: Best Multicultural Awareness Article What is life like in America for Hispanic Americans?  What are their thoughts and concerns about family, employment, education, religion, opportunities, and healthcare?  We asked Claudia Goffan, founder of Target Latino, an Atlanta based marketing and consulting firm specializing in the Hispanic market, to provide &#8220;The College World Reporter&#8221; readers with her own views from inside Hispanic America. Here is our interview: Q.Could you give us an inside look at Hispanic or Latino life? A. To fully understand the Hispanic market, you need to analyze it by country of origin, level of acculturation, age, sex, marital status and educational level. Although some generalizations can be made, they have to be understood as such and not as an answer to comprehending the culture. Let&#8217;s talk about some of the generalizations about the Hispanic culture. The very first one that comes to mind is about family being the first priority, the children are celebrated and sheltered and the wife usually fulfills a domestic role. Hispanics have a long Roman Catholic tradition and this usually implies quite a fatalistic outlook where destiny is in the hands of God. Latin American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managers&#039; Hiring Practices Vary By Race, Ethnicity Says University of Miami Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[White, Asian and Hispanic managers tend to hire more whites and fewer blacks than black managers do, according to a new study out of the University of Miami School of Business Administration. Using more than two years of personnel data from a large U.S. retail chain, the study found that when a black manager in a typical store is replaced by a white, Asian or Hispanic manager, the share of newly hired blacks falls from 21 to 17 percent, and the share of whites hired rises from 60 to 64 percent. The effect is even stronger for stores located in the South, where the replacement of a black manager causes the share of newly hired blacks to fall from 29 to 21 percent. In locations with large Hispanic populations, Hispanics hire more Hispanics and fewer whites than white managers. The study is out this month in the Journal of Labor Economics. The finding is clear evidence that the race or ethnicity of those who make hiring decisions can have a strong impact in the racial makeup of a company&#8217;s workforce, says Laura Giuliano, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Miami School of Business, who authored the study with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor first Hispanic and third woman on the Supreme Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MONDAY, OCTOBER 5: SUPREME COURT TERM OPENS Profile America &#8212; Monday, October 5th. As National Hispanic Heritage Month continues, today marks the first day of the current Supreme Court session. As the justices file in, their ranks will include Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, confirmed by the Senate in August. Her official investiture ceremony was held last month. She already has participated in one case left over from the previous session. Sotomayor is the 111th justice to sit on the nation&#8217;s highest court. She is the first Hispanic and the third woman on the Supreme Court. Across the U.S., there are just over 1 million lawyers, nearly one-third of them women and just over 4 percent Hispanic. You can find these and more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov. Sources: Chase&#8217;s Calendar of Events 2009, p. 495 Statistical Abstract of the United States 2009, t. 596 Profile America is produced by the Public Information Office of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on a monthly CD or on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look under the &#8220;Newsroom&#8221; button). SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau]]></description>
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		<title>A line of products to celebrate the historic Confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York, August 7th – Cristina Mella, the entrepreneur and founder of Cristina Mella-Latino Living has launched a line of products honoring Judge Sonia Sotomayor and her historic confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States. All products (from T-Shirts and coffee mugs to greeting cards and small gifts) are designed with the logo I am a Wise Latina Too! “My goal is to recognize the amazing achievement of Judge Sonia Sotomayor and to provide Latinas with a line of stylish and colorful everyday products and accessories to show their Latin pride” explains Latino Living founder Cristina Mella. “I think that ‘Wise Latina’ is a sentence that resonates with many Latin women because in our culture Wise or Sabia implies a richness of life experiences and a way of seeing life” &#8211; continued Cristina Mella. All I am a Wise Latina Too! products are available online at http://www.wiselatinatoo.com About Cristina Mella-Latino Living A native of Spain living in New York for the last twenty years, Cristina Mella is a Home and Lifestyle specialist with a Latin heart, an American mind and a European touch. Cristina appears regularly on TV, radio and print as a lifestyle personality sharing tips and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Census Promotional Videos Win Numerous Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A series of 2010 Census promotional videos have won several prestigious Telly Awards as well as a Videographer Award of Excellence &#8212; awards that honor the best in video production. The videos were produced by the Public Information Office at the U.S. Census Bureau as part of a collaborative effort between headquarters, regional and contracting staff. They were submitted for consideration by contractors Therese Allen and Corey Petree. The four- to seven-minute videos, titled &#8220;A New Portrait of America,&#8221; were produced to reach different segments of the population including the general, African-American, Asian, Hispanic, Native American/Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders, and Puerto Rican audiences. In the nonbroadcast productions category, the videos received silver Tellys for use of music and editing, and a bronze Telly was awarded for government relations. In the Internet/online video category, a silver Telly was awarded for music and a bronze Telly was awarded for editing. The videos also received the 2009 Videographer Award of Excellence in the government/federal and creativity/video/original music categories. The &#8220;New Portrait of America&#8220; videos include diverse images from throughout the country as well as interviews with community leaders. They are used at activities and events to promote the 2010 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voter Turnout Increases by 5 Million in 2008 Presidential Election, U.S. Census Bureau Reports</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data Show Significant Increases Among Hispanic, Black and Young Voters About 131 million people reported voting in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, an increase of 5 million from 2004, according to a new table package released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. The increase included about 2 million more black voters, 2 million more Hispanic voters and about 600,000 more Asian voters, while the number of non-Hispanic white voters remained statistically unchanged. Additionally, voters 18 to 24 were the only age group to show a statistically significant increase in turnout, reaching 49 percent in 2008 compared with 47 percent in 2004. Blacks had the highest turnout rate among 18- to 24-year-old voters &#8212; 55 percent, an 8 percent increase from 2004. The increased turnout among certain demographic groups was offset by stagnant or decreased turnout among other groups, causing overall 2008 voter turnout to remain statistically unchanged &#8212; at 64 percent &#8212; from 2004. &#8220;The 2008 presidential election saw a significant increase in voter turnout among young people, blacks and Hispanics,&#8221; said Thom File, a voting analyst with the Census Bureau&#8217;s Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division. &#8220;But as turnout among some other demographic groups either decreased or remained unchanged, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigration Raids and Union Organizing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Case Study of the Smithfield Plant In January 2007, the Smithfield Plant in Tar Heel, N.C. was raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This raid drastically changed the demographics of the plant, shifting from a mostly illegal Hispanic workforce to a legal African American workforce. The plant&#8217;s workers were able to unionize in the aftermath, something the previous workforce had failed to do twice prior to the raid. Jerry Kammer, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, has examined the circumstances surrounding the raid and the plant&#8217;s unionization. In &#8220;Immigration Raids at Smithfield: How an ICE Enforcement Action Boosted Union Organizing and the Employment of American Workers,&#8221; Kammer gives an overview of events before the unionization and insights into the varied reasons workers were able to solidify backing for the union. The report is online at  http://cis.org/SmithfieldImmigrationRaid-Unionization. The sequence of events includes: The Smithfield Plant, represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), failed to unionize in both 1994 and 1997. An administrative law judge found that the company committed &#8220;egregious and pervasive violations of labor law&#8221; during the 1997 effort when it used the employees&#8217; illegal status to threaten them. After the initial attempts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Census Facts for Features: Hispanic Heritage Month 2009: Sept. 15 &#8211; Oct. 15</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, July 15 /PRNewswire/ &#8212; In September 1968, Congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to proclaim National Hispanic Heritage Week, which was observed during the week that included Sept. 15 and Sept. 16. The observance was expanded in 1988 to a monthlong celebration (Sept. 15 &#8211; Oct. 15). America celebrates the culture and traditions of those who trace their roots to Spain, Mexico and the Spanish-speaking nations of Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Sept. 15 was chosen as the starting point for the celebration because it is the anniversary of independence of five Latin American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. In addition, Mexico and Chile celebrate their independence days on Sept. 16 and Sept. 18, respectively. Population 46.9 million The estimated Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2008, making people of Hispanic origin the nation&#8217;s largest ethnic or race minority. Hispanics constituted 15 percent of the nation&#8217;s total population. In addition, there are approximately 4 million residents of Puerto Rico. Source: Population estimates http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/013733.html and http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/013049.html More than 1 &#8230;of every two people added to the nation&#8217;s population between July 1, 2007, and July 1, 2008, was Hispanic. There were 1.5 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State’s Hispanic electorate on the rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the last six years the number of Hispanic registered voters in Georgia has risen by more than 1,300 percent and Hispanics now comprise 3 percent of the state’s voters, a recent study found. “Where we started with about 10,000 Latino registered voters back in January 2003, now we have 146,000 approximately,” said Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials and author of a report on Hispanic voter participation. “I think voter turnout is a true indicator that there has been great success in encouraging the Latino community to vote,” he said. “In the majority of the jurisdictions across the state, Latino voter participation outpaced national rates in the general election.” In Whitfield County, the number of registered Hispanic voters rose 331 percent between 2003 and 2009, the study showed. Whitfield now ranks sixth among Georgia’s 159 counties in the number of Hispanic registered voters in Georgia, with 3,015. The highest concentration of self-identified Hispanic registered voters is in Gwinnett County, with 15,593, according to the report. But the growth of the Hispanic electorate will be gradual, said Dr. David Boyle, dean of the School of Social work at Dalton State College. He is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Law Enforcement: Constitutional Restrictions on Vehicle Searches</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The public is rightfully grateful for strict enforcement of traffic and safety laws, but sometimes cops in Georgia go too far in searching the vehicles they stop. June 21, 2009 /Hispanic PR News/ &#8212; Georgia Law Enforcement: Constitutional Restrictions on Vehicle Searches Georgia is a beautiful place for a road trip. From piney forests to coastal islands and from rural farms to urban Atlanta, millions of vehicles traverse the state clocking billions of trip miles every year. In this time of a depressed economy and the resulting pressure on public funding, the Georgia State Patrol (GSP), sheriffs and local police departments have their hands full keeping everyone safe. The public is rightfully grateful for strict enforcement of traffic and safety laws, but sometimes cops in Georgia go too far in searching the vehicles they stop. Vehicle Privacy Rights The United States Constitution&#8217;s Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures unless the authorities obtain valid judicial warrants based on probable cause. Federal and Georgia courts recognize that the constitutional right to privacy extends to your vehicle, although the privacy protection in your car is weaker than the right to privacy in your home. Because cars are mobile and could [...]]]></description>
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