Seniors Grow Old Under Debt
The Baltimore Sun/New America Media, News Report, Posted: May 29, 2012
Credit counselors and attorneys see an increasing number of elders seeking financial help and bankruptcy protection, often because of health care bills.
Categories: Economy, Elders, Health, Intersections, Multi-ethnic, Top Stories
Tags: bankruptcyandseniors, eldersindebt, healthcaredebt, parentswithstudentloans, seniorsandcreditcarddebt
Underfunded Continuation Schools Struggle to Serve Students
ChicoSol, News Report, Posted: May 27, 2012
A study showing that continuation schools were viewed as a "cornerstone of the state's drop-out prevention strategy" not so long ago.
Categories: Economy, Education, Front Page, Youth Culture
Tags: budget, california, continuation, economy, education, graduates, high, struggle, unfunded
Advocates Rush to Provide Health Care for Poor and Minorities
New America Media, News Report, Posted: May 25, 2012
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, thousands of deaths each year are attributable to lack of insurance.
Categories: Asian, Economy, Gender & Sexuality, Health, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: aca, access, brown, california, care, governor, health, immigrants, insurance, obama, poverty, refugees
You Say Marriage, I Say Jobs
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: May 24, 2012
With all of this attention on same-sex marriage, we may be ignoring an even more important right: the right to work.
Categories: Economy, Gender & Sexuality, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: ENDA, gaymarriage, LGBTQ, lgbtrights, marriageequality, samesexmarriage, transgender
A Bite of China: Food as Top Discussion in Chinese Blogosphere
World Journal, News Report, Posted: May 23, 2012
Taobao, one of China's biggest online shopping sites, reports that the volume of search on food items that were introduced by the documentary has increased to 4 million times within one week.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Chinese, Economy, Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: china, documentary, food, taste
Latino Parents With Autistic Children Face Major Hurdles
EGP News, News Report, Posted: May 23, 2012
While the number of Latinos diagnosed with autism is growing, getting information in Spanish is challenging.
Categories: Economy, Health, Latino, Top Stories
Tags: access, autism, children, color, health, latino, parents, risks, spanish, speaker
Economist's Market-Based Immigration Proposal Draws Interest in DC
Hispanic Link News Service, News Report, Posted: May 21, 2012
Italian economist Gionvanni Peri is proposing reforms that would create a market-based immigration system for the United States.
Categories: Economy, Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, Immigration, Latino
Tags: economistimmigration, hamiltonproject, marketbasedimmigration
What’s a College Degree Worth These Days?
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: May 20, 2012
In a good job market or a bad job market, an education has more worth than the monetary value that a Gallup poll places on it.
Categories: Economy, Education, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Filipino Church Buys South Dakota Town
FilAm Star, News Report, Posted: May 17, 2012
A church in the Philippines purchased an abandoned, tiny exclave in Scenic, South Dakota for $700,000.
Categories: Asian, Economy, Ethnic Media Headlines, Religion
Tags: bufordwy, filipinochurch, henryrivernc, hungergamestown, scenicsd, scenicsouthdakota, southdakota
Graduating College Student Speaks: I've Made a Huge Mistake
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: May 15, 2012
All things considered, if I could look back and do it over again, I would have taken my chance with the stiffs.
Categories: Economy, Education, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: bachelor degree, california, debt, education, jobs, journalism, loan, unemployment, university
Brown’s Budget Cuts at Issue During World Court of Women
New America Media, News Report, Posted: May 14, 2012
The World Court of Women on Poverty met in Oakland for a rally that coincided with news of further cuts to California's beleaguered budget.
Categories: Economy, Gender & Sexuality, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: brown'sbudgetcuts, californiabudgetcrisis, povertyinoakland, worldcourtofwomen
Chinese Banks to Expand in US
China, News Report, Posted: May 10, 2012
The US Federal Reserve announced Wednesday its approval of China's largest bank to purchase a US bank.
Categories: Chinese, Economy, Ethnic Media Headlines
CSU Faculty Stage Pickets Across State, Ready to Strike
New America Media, News Report, Posted: May 09, 2012
Two days after reportedly walking away from the bargaining table, CSU faculty staged pickets across the state.
Categories: Economy, Education, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: cafacultyassociationstrike, cfa, cfastrike, csu, csustrike, sfstate, sfstatestrike
New Orleans Activist Rejects NY Times Depiction of Ninth Ward
America's Wire, News Report, Posted: May 09, 2012
Contrary to the New York Times article residents of this community are not reconciled to life in the wilderness.
Categories: African American, Economy, Environment, Front Page
Tags: blacks, katrina, lower ninth, neighborhood, new orleans, new york times, ninth, poor, ward, wilderness
Disaster After the Storm
Equal Voice News, News Report, Posted: May 08, 2012
In the aftermath of tornadoes and hurricanes, the painful pattern of who is helped – and who is left behind – is undeniable.
Categories: African American, Economy, Environment, Ethnic Media Network, Latino, Top Stories
Tags: equalvoice, hurricanekatrina, tornadoes
Why Tea Party Lawmakers Are Trying to Conflate Poverty and Drug Addiction
Colorlines, News Report, Posted: May 07, 2012
The bill’s supporters say it will save the state money, protect children from drug using parents and do away with welfare abuse. In reality, the new law is a solution in search of a problem.
Categories: Economy, Election 2012, Ethnic Media Headlines, Health
Tags: bill, children, drugs, economy, election, mitt, romney, tea party
Asian-American Fishermen Sue BP for Racial Discrimination
Louisiana Weekly, News Report, Posted: May 05, 2012
Vietnamese and Cambodian fishermen in New Orleans see their livelihoods crushed a by the BP spill.
Categories: Asian, Economy, Environment, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: bp, cambodian, fishermen, katrina, livelihood, New orleans, oil, spill, vietnamese
Scholars Say “Unconscious Bias” Leads to Discrimination
America's Wire, News Report, Posted: May 03, 2012
Leading social justice scholars believe that “unconscious bias” is what leads to negative racial stereotyping that can unknowingly prompt discriminatory actions and attitudes towards people of color.
Categories: African American, Asian, Chinese, Economy, Education, Health, Latino, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, News, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: attitude, bias, discriminatory actions, embedded in consciousness, negative stereotyping
Work-Related Fatalities Remain High for Latino Workers
New America Media, News Report, Posted: May 02, 2012
The workplace fatality rate for Latino workers continues to be higher than the fatality rate for all U.S. workers, according to a new report released Wednesday by the AFL-CIO.
Categories: Economy, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino
Tags: aflciolatinoworkdeaths, deathonthejob, workfatalities, workrelatedfatalities
Innovations and Legislation Aim to Stave Off California Park Closures
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: May 02, 2012
Although California parks attract 70 million visitors a year, generating $6 billion in the economy, Governor Brown will close 70 parks unless the public takes action.
Categories: Economy, Environment, Front Page, Living
Tags: budget cuts, closures, crisis, key legislation, non-profits, stave off closures
Protesters Smash, Paint-Bomb Businesses, Cars in San Francisco
Mission Local, News Report, Posted: May 01, 2012
A group of protesters vandalized dozens of businesses, cars and any property they came across as they marched through the Mission on Monday night.
Categories: Economy, Ethnic Media Headlines, Occupy Protests
Tags: march, may day, Mission, occupy, protest, vandalism, wall street
Where’s the Color in the Occupy Movement?
Colorlines, News Report, Posted: May 01, 2012
In 1886, 300,000 workers, a great number of them immigrants and anarchists, went on general strike across the United States. That day, they took another step in the long march toward an eight-hour workday that had started in the 1860’s and didn’t end until well into the 20th century.
Categories: Economy, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration
Tags: 99 percent, may, mayday, occupy, protest
California’s Fight to Stop Health Insurance Price Gouging & the Single Payer Solution
New America Media/California Progress Report, News Analysis, Posted: May 01, 2012
Health insurance premium rates have soared by 153% since 2002, nearly five times the rate of inflation in California.
Categories: Economy, Health, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: blue cross, californians, coverage, economy, health, insurance, premium