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Election 2012: Latina Bloggers Go to the White House

By Viviana Hurtado | 05/24/2012 - 16:04 | 0 Comments

“You’ve been selected as one of the Top Latina Bloggers to attend a mini-MBA and attend a special White House briefing.”

When this email popped up in my inbox, I exclaimed, ¡Bendito sea El Señor! As the founder and editor-in-chief of The Wise Latina Club, I’ve been trying to figure out how to make a living from my passion on informing...

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What Does the Student Loan Debate Really Mean?

By Alanna Nunez | 05/23/2012 - 16:00 | 0 Comments

When I started college, I remember everyone telling me to enjoy my time there, because it would be the best four years of my life. And they were right. Now I’m watching my sister enjoy her college experience, and while she’s having a great time, there’s one major difference between her experience and mine: When she graduates in 2014, she’ll be saddled with at least $20,000...

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Election 2012: What’s the Deal With the GOP Vice President Pick?

By Viviana Hurtado | 05/17/2012 - 15:30 | 0 Comments

With Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich out, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney is honing in on a Vice President to complete the Republican ticket.  This process of tapping a running mate is called the “Veepstakes”—a guessing game where bets are being placed on Twitter, cable TV and even in Vegas....

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Dream Act Supporters Sue U.S. Senate

By Samantha Leal | 05/16/2012 - 12:49 | 0 Comments

Dream Act supporters are hitting the courts again – this time, to prove that the cloture vote that killed it in 2010 was unconstitutional, reports Huffington Post....

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Marco Rubio Says Separating Cubans from Hispanics is "Offensive”

By Sugey Palomares | 05/07/2012 - 13:04 | 0 Comments

Despite tackling the immigration subject full force with a revised version of the Dream Act, Marco Rubio still lacks popularity among Latino voters. Some reports claim that the Florida Senator won’t appeal to the mass Latino...

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Election 2012: Who's More Likable?

By Viviana Hurtado | 05/04/2012 - 12:07 | 0 Comments

On Day 45 of the “Newt Death Watch” – a media-penned name coined while waiting for GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich to drop out – the former Speaker of the House announced in a short YouTube video that he was out of the running for President.  He thanked the “nearly” 180,000 people who donated to the campaign, the thousands who...

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Antonio Villaraigosa Says Marco Rubio’s Revised Dream Act Creates “Second Class Status”

By Sugey Palomares | 05/02/2012 - 11:20 | 0 Comments

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently criticized Marco Rubio’s immigration push and revised version of the Dream Act, which would legalize immigrants to stay in the country who have graduated from high school and hope to obtain a college education or join the military.

The Republican Senator, who is also...

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ACLU Sues Border Patrol for Racial Profiling at the Canadian Border

By Samantha Leal | 04/30/2012 - 16:12 | 0 Comments

Border problems… at the northern border? Yep. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint against the U.S. Border control after two Latinos and a black man were "unjustifiably" stopped in Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula, an area close to Canada, ...

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