Invisible Workforce: Immigrant Domestic Workers Push for Better Conditions
 

Invisible Workforce: Immigrant Domestic Workers Push for Better Conditions

PRI's The World, News Report, Odette Yousef, Posted: May 21, 2013

Domestic workers, many of them women immigrants, are getting behind a nationwide push for better working conditions.

 

Samoan Dance Brings Healing to Violence-Prone SF Community

 

Silicon Valley DeBug/ New America Media, Video, Jean Melesaine, Posted: May 18, 2013

Pelenise Faataui teaches Samoan and Polynesian dance in a San Francisco neighborhood long plagued by poverty and violence.

 

Invisible Workforce: An Undocumented Immigrant Caregiver Shares Her Story

 

PRI's The World, Video, Monica Campbell, Posted: May 17, 2013

Nannies, housecleaners, caregivers—they are sometimes called the world’s most invisible workforce. Most are women and many are immigrants.

 

UC President: Serving Minorities 'Key Question' Going Forward

 

New America Media, Video, Peter Schurmann/Video by Josue Rojas, Posted: May 12, 2013

Outgoing UC President Mark Yudof says the university needs to do more to meet the demands of an increasingly diverse California.

 

Tattoo Culture Along the Texas-Mexico Border

 

PRI's The World, News Feature, Jason Margolis, Posted: Apr 10, 2013

Not long ago, the border used to be one united place, with Mexicans and Americans easily flowing across back and forth. No longer.

 

Maryland Takes Lead on Health Care Reform

 

New America Media, Video, Video by Min Lee, Text by Khalil Abdullah, Posted: Mar 24, 2013

At a newsmaker briefing for ethnic media representatives, health care experts in Maryland highlighted the benefits that the ACA will bring.

 

The ‘New Normal’ -- Calif. Youth Giving Up the Gun

 

New America Media, Video, Staff, Posted: Mar 04, 2013

While young people's attitudes toward guns vary by region and gender, most agree they are at the root of fear and insecurity on the street.

 

Forum: Women Farmworkers Have Huge Stake in Immigration Reform

 

New America Media, Video, Sean Shavers and Elena Shore, Posted: Feb 26, 2013

In January, some 90 farm workers and community leaders gathered in California's Central Valley to discuss U.S. immigration policy and its impact on women.

 

Homeless Youth Project Releases Statewide Action Plan

 

New America Media, Video, Valerie Klinker, Posted: Feb 10, 2013

In January California released its action plan on homeless youth, a set of measures aimed at ending youth homelessness in the state.

 

Eye on Elections: Muslim Voters Disappointed With Obama, Wary of GOP

 

New America Media, Interview, Hana Baba, Posted: Oct 26, 2012

Four years ago, Muslim American voters turned out for Obama. This year, that support appears to have turned into disappointment.

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