Slowing Economy Fuels Increase In Latino Part Time Workers

In this election year, the economic woes of Latinos may take precedence over other issues…
The number of Americans who have seen their full-time jobs chopped to part time because of weak business has swelled to more than 3.7 million – the largest figure since the government began tracking such data more than a half-century ago.
The [...]

Does McCain's Reversal on Affirmative Action Affect Latinos?

McCain has long opposed quotas but his new support for ending affirmative action programs which stop short of quotas puts him at odds not only with Democratic rival Barack Obama but also with the Arizona senator’s own views in 1998.
Back then, when the legislature in McCain’s home state of Arizona considered sending the voters a [...]