Monday, June 10, 2013

Pay gap tied to minimum wage; Latinas hit hardest, study says | Cop breaks leg in collision during Puerto Rican Day parade: officials - New York Post | The Honorable Sonia Sotomayor in her memoir - PR Discussion Forum - Topix

The Honorable Sonia Sotomayor in her memoir.

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Latino Rebels Radio: Presenting our “Sizzle Reel” 

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As Latino Rebels Radio becomes a reality later this summer, we wanted to take a minute and share our “sizzle reel,” a 4-minute clip showing some of our show’s highlights. Our show’s hosts are Charlie García, a new addition to the Rebeldes, and Julito Varela, the founder of LatinoRebels.com.
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Here is it. Hope you like it. Many thanks to Rick Najera and Fernando Espuelas for lending their insights as well.
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Salud mental 

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Analysis - Puerto Rico faces uphill budget rush as 'junk' rating looms - Reuters UK

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Analysis - Puerto Rico faces uphill budget rush as 'junk' rating looms
Reuters UK
(Reuters) - Puerto Rico policymakers, desperate to keep the Caribbean island's massive debts out of the junk-bonds bin, are racing against a June 30 deadline to revive sales-tax hikes that are the backbone of the planned budget. With over $70 ... A key ...

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Analysis: Puerto Rico faces uphill budget rush as 'junk' rating looms - MSN Mone... 

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Analysis: Puerto Rico faces uphill budget rush as 'junk' rating looms - MSN Money

Analysis: Puerto Rico faces uphill budget rush as 'junk' rating looms
MSN Money
(Reuters) - Puerto Rico policymakers, desperate to keep the Caribbean island's massive …


Analysis: Puerto Rico faces uphill budget rush as 'junk' rating looms - MSN Money

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, June 9, CMC -Officials in the Dominican

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, June 9, CMC -Officials in the Dominican Republic have denied reports of an outbreak of avian flu adding that the World Health Organisation declared the country free of bird flu three...

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2 out of 3 people face hunger as Haiti woes mount

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2 out of 3 people face hunger as Haiti woes mount
BELLE ANSE, Haiti (AP) — The hardship of hunger abounds amid the stone homes and teepee-like huts in the mountains along Haiti's southern coast.
Security costing taxpayers million$ for ruined Goodyear factory
TAXPAYERS continue to pay hefty bills to provide round-the-clock security for the rundown Goodyear tyre factory in St Thomas more than a decade after $143 million of public money was spent to construct another building adjoining the decaying structure to house an information technology park.
Doctor reports increase in new cases every week
CANCER specialist Dr Margaret Dingle Spence has seen enough people writhe in pain, then die from the disease to last a lifetime.
'Out of order, minister!'
OPPOSITION spokesman on foreign affairs and foreign trade, Senator Christopher Tufton, says that Friday's outburst in the Senate by minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade, Senator AJ Nicholson, against critics of Jamaica's trade relationship with Trinidad and Tobago was "inappropriate and out of order".

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Trust aims to protect 33% of PR lands

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Trust aims to protect 33% of PR lands
Issued: June 6, 2013
The Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico is launching an ambitious new effort aimed at protecting one-third of the island’s land by 2033. ...
CNE’s concerns on economy reach new heights
Issued: June 6, 2013
Puerto Rico’s leading think tank said the government’s battered fiscal condition and weakening island economy are creating challenges that only a...

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Cop breaks leg in collision during Puerto Rican Day parade: officials - New York Post

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Cop breaks leg in collision during Puerto Rican Day parade: officials
New York Post
An police officer on a motorcycle broke his leg after he collided with a luxury car today during thePuerto Rican Day parade, cops said. The white BMW ... All were misdemeanor charges fromcriminal possession of marijuana and disorderly conduct, cops said.
From Pride to Puerto Rico, a weekend of paradesMetro.us

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‘White House Down’ Extended Trailer 

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Columbia Pictures has released an extended 4-minute trailer for the American-President-under-attack thriller “White House Down,” starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Joey King.
Film is directed by Roland Emmerich.
In the film, Capitol Policeman John Cale (Channing Tatum) has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx). Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation’s government falling into chaos and time running out, it’s up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.
Have a look at the extended 4-minute trailer below and let us know what you folks think.
“White House Down” will hit theaters on June 28, 2013.
Source: Columbia Pictures
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Pay gap tied to minimum wage; Latinas hit hardest, study says

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The fact that women’s wages lag behind men’s is nothing new, but a new report is showing that the minimum wage may have something to do with it.
According to a study by the National Women’s Law Center, the average gender wage gap in states with minimum wages above the federally mandated $7.25 per hour is smaller than the pay gap in states where the minimum wage meets the $7.25 criteria. Of the ten states with the widest wage gaps in 2011, only two had minimum wages above $7.25 per hour. All of the states with the narrowest wage gaps had minimum wages above the federally mandated level.
“The gap in wages has moved at a snail’s pace—shrinking only 18 cents in five decades and remaining stagnant for the last decade,” said NWLC Co-President Marcia D. Greenberger.  “And for women of color, the wage gap is even worse.  Equal pay is not an abstract principle for women and their families.”
While women of all races suffer from unequal pay, the study shows that Hispanic women tend to have it the hardest. Whereas the average white woman makes 77 cents to every dollar made by a man, the average Latina makes 55 cents.
Pat Shiu, director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs at the Labor Department and a member of the White House Equal Pay Task Force, says that Latinas have just barely caught up to where their white counterparts were when President Kennedy first signed the Equal Pay Act into law 50 years ago today.
“As we are embarking on the 50th anniversary of equal pay, women are making 77 cents to the dollar. When it comes to the pay gap for Latinas, it’s 55 cents and that means it’s taken this long to get where other women were 50 years ago,” she says.
Latino legislators like New Mexico Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham and California Congressman Xavier Becerra have come out  in support of the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would have closed loopholes on the Equal Pay Act. A vote was blocked in Congress on the Act in April.
Over the course of the year, the average woman working full time, year-round will lose $17,249 due to the pay gap, says Shiu. For Latinas that total lost wages is even higher, with the average full time Hispanic woman losing an estimated $23,298. According to Shiu, over a lifetime Hispanic women will likely lose out on a whopping $854,000. At a time when moms are the top breadwinners in 4 out of 10 households,  the loss of thousands of dollars each year for Hispanic women impacts more than just the women, but Latino families, argues Shiu.
“When you consider that cost to her family and her community- it’s astounding. When you start at a deficit, you are going to stay at a deficit,” Shiu says. “It is a family issue and a community issue.”
Still, she is hopeful that the pay gap for Latinas could be closed in part by raising the minimum wage.
“As a civil rights lawyer I had the privilege of representing people who didn’t even earn the minimum wage- who had no minimum wage,” she says. “The minimum wage is directly tied to discrimination.”

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Latino radio stations connect immigrant communities - High Country News

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Latino radio stations connect immigrant communities
High Country News
Latino stations are nearly as old as radio itself. In the U.S., their success was initially built on immigrants' nostalgia for the music of home, says Angie Balderas, vice president of sales for the Hispanic media company Adelante Media Group ...

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'Cyber-Mining' and Illegal Data Trafficking in Mexico - Mexidata.info

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'Cyber-Mining' and Illegal Data Trafficking in Mexico
Mexidata.info
Interested buyers were informed of the availability of client data from the HSBC, Bancomer and Santander banks; the Telmex phone monopoly and the Infinitum Internet service provider, both associated with Carlos Slim; the Axtel and Nextel cell phone ...

Puerto Rico espera concretar flexibilización de la reforma educativa federal

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García Padilla tiene previsto reunirse mañana con el secretario de Educación de Estados Unidos
    


Puerto Rican Day Weekend 2013 - YouTube