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Why Don't We Pay People Enough? 8 Facts About America's Struggling Working People

Bill Quigley, AlterNet. January 23, 2012.

Millions of people in the U.S. work and are still poor.

"Illegal Immigrant" or "Undocumented Worker"? What Ethnic Media Says About The Implications of Language

Elena Shore, New America Media. September 26, 2011.

The AP Stylebook prefers "illegal immigrant," but the National Association of Hispanic Journalists advocates the term "undocumented immigrant."

Do I Look Undocumented To You?

Adam Luna, America's Voice. April 15, 2010.

We have a chance to stop racial profiling and discrimination, but only if we raise our voices now.

Punitive Arizona Immigration Measure Makes Headlines (Again)!

Benjamin Johnson, Immigration Impact. April 15, 2010.

Arizona doesn’t have a monopoly on bad ideas, but it does seem particularly good at getting noticed for them.

Arizona Legislature Makes Being Undocumented a Crime

Valeria Fernandez, New America Media. April 14, 2010.

Arizona is on track to become the first state in the nation to make it a misdemeanor for a person to be there without legal immigration documents.

Mixed-Race Numbers Expected to Increase on 2010 Census

Denise Poon, New America Media. April 2, 2010.

Ten years ago, for the first time, respondents had options to self-identify as more than one race, nearly 7 million people (roughly 2.4 percent of respondents) did so.

ICE Out of Control: Time to Rein in Rogue Agency, Pass Immigration Reform

Frank Sharry, America's Voice. March 31, 2010.

A group of grassroots leaders are demanding that the President fire John Morton, the head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The Staggering Cost of Mass Deportation

Maurice Belanger, ImmPolitic. March 26, 2010.

The Center for American Progress estimates that a mass deportation strategy for the 10.8 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. would cost $285 billion.

Immigration Debate: Press One For Culture War In English

Douglas Rivlin, NewsJunkiePost.com. March 26, 2010.

Anxiety about immigrants, immigration, and therefore immigration reform, tends to revolve around three broad categories of concern: economics, security, and culture.

Weekly Diaspora: Immigration Opponents Take a Turn for the Worse

Erin Rosa, The Media Consortium. March 13, 2010.

As grassroots support for the pro-immigration reform March for America grows, anti-immigration groups and their allies are trying to use racial tension to stop the momentum.

Gut Check for GOP on Immigration

Robert Creamer, Huffington Post. March 12, 2010.

There is a quiet battle underway within the GOP that may soon break out into the open. It will impact whether they can continue as a national political party in the decades ahead

Census: Masking Identities or Counting the Indigenous Among Us?

Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez, New America Media. March 4, 2010.

In 1848, the former citizens of Mexico were designated “white” because of U.S. slavery and legal segregation. This artifact of history complicates the U.S. Census to this day.

The Latino Community Wants Accountability in 2010

Clarissa Martinez de Castro, National Council of La Raza. March 3, 2010.

The promise of change that energized voting and participation in 2008 is bringing hundreds of Latino community leaders to Washington today as NCLR launches new ads on immigration.

Obama Needs to Do More Than Swap Liberal Justices

Obama Needs to Do More Than Swap Liberal Justices

Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive. May 29, 2009.

While America dissects Sotomayor's appointment, little attention is paid to a troubling Supreme Court ruling.

Hilda Solis Approved by Senate Panel

Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 11, 2009.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee cleared Hilda Solis' nomination as Secretary of Labor today.

Immigration Reform That Just Might Work

Tara Magner, MIT Center for International Studies. October 18, 2007.

The Bush administration has retreated into an "enforcement first" approach that ignores the economic and labor needs of the country.

New York City Is Hell for Pot Smokers

Paul Armentano, AlterNet. March 31, 2007.

If you're a pot smoking African-American or Hispanic in New York City, chances are you and the NYPD are on a first-name basis.

Why Mitt\'s \'Mexican-American\' Complex Matters in Florida

Ed Kilgore, December 31, 1969.


More Latinos in US Identifying as Native American

Jorge Rivas, December 31, 1969.


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