Corporate America is already thinking beyond Election Day, increasing its share of last-minute donations to Democratic candidates and quietly devising strategies for how to work with Democrats if they win control of Congress.

While the war in Iraq, congressional page and influence-peddling scandals and parochial concerns have been top issues this campaign season, the election could have big implications for the business agenda -- taxes, trade, regulation and spending -- which has been set in recent years by a GOP White House and Congress.

Seismologist Ines Cifuentes was named National Hispanic Scientist of the Year on Saturday by the Tampa, Fla.-based Museum of Science and Industry.

Accion USA, the nation's largest microlender, has made its first loan in Southern Arizona and expects to be more active in the region's growing Hispanic market.

A panel at the New America Alliance's Wall Street Summit finds that that while there are "angel" investors willing to take the risk to back fledgling Hispanic businesses, they are few and far between.

President George W. Bush on Thursday gave final approval to building a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border to deter illegal immigration.

The biggest Hispanic-controlled investment partnership in the United States has agreed to support the first Hispanic-owned business bank to open in Los Angeles in 30 years, the investment house announced today at the New America Alliance gathering in New York.

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While the U.S. median age continues to rise, from 35.3 years in 2000, the median age of Hispanics remains the lowest of all groups. Demographers predict faster growth among young Hispanics than among other young ethnic groups for the next decade.

Our list of who's raising the Hispanic profile in 2006.

Our 100 Most Influential Hispanics list from 1986 has some familiar names -- where are they now?