HISPANIC MARKET
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In 1999, Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez started The U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project Group at the University of Texas because she feared these stories were being forgotten. She was in Houston to celebrate the release of "A Legacy Greater Than Words," a book based on hundreds of interviews with Latino vets of World War II.
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ixty percent of Hispanics under age 65 have been without health insurance at some point during the past two years, according to a report published Thursday by the organization Families USA.
U.S. immigrant groups are ratcheting up a boycott of Western Union Co. in hopes of forcing the global money-transfer industry to reinvest in the immigrant communities from which it profits.
POLITICS
Nothing has more significance for America's long-term political evolution than the demographic changes that are diversifying a mostly white nation. But you'd never know it from the Republican presidential race.
A Democratic U.S. senator is proposing a bill to allow illegal immigrant students who entered the United States before they were 16 to have legal status.
Texas Republicans said Friday that the harsh tone of the immigration debate could cost the party politically in 2008 by repelling Hispanics from the GOP.
SMALL BUSINESS / ENTREPRENEUR
Almost 100 years and four generations ago, a family of Mexican descendants started a business on the South Side and in the process began serving their community -- which is why their business is being recognized this week, along with other Tucson minority entrepreneurs.
Today, the company, which already delivers self-service technology to Circuit City, Food Lion, Lowes Foods and a host of other retailers, is making another big push into the market with the international launch of the second-generation Anyplace Kiosk.
Fairfield County business groups and area municipal officials have developed business training programs to assist those in the rapidly growing Hispanic community who hope to become entrepreneurs.
No matter how great a business proposal may be, small-business owners and entrepreneurs need to avoid common mistakes when applying for credit to advance their ideas.
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