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The college-bound “Millennial” generation born between 1982 and 2000 will represent the next mass affluent group. Financial institutions will need new marketing approaches.

Registration is now open for the 4th annual AAAA MAIP Diversity Career Fair. The event, which takes place Thursday, August 9th in New York City, offers an opportunity for agencies to meet the graduates of the 2007 Multicultural Advertising Intern Program, as well as alumni of the program. Event sponsorship opportunities are also available. Participation is open to AAAA Members only.

This note has nothing to do with advertising to US Hispanics. And, at the same time, it has everything to do with advertising to US Hispanics.

This note is the product of anger, concern, fear, disappointment, pride and, in a humble way, an attempt to put my two cents worth in the topic of our times: immigration.

The Art Gallery of Knoxville is proud to present a national exhibition that examines the U.S. / Mexico Border and the lives of migrant farm workers and Appalachian families in rural TN.

Miami based Solmark Media Group, publishers of Hispanic Market Weekly, will be launching a new publication delivered digitally and via subscription targeting Hispanics interested in politics in the USA and the Americas.

Arturo Villar – Publisher of Hispanic Market Weekly has been known to have a keen interest in politics and its impact on society and the economies of the Americas.

Jennifer Carpena, a student from Aibonito, Puerto Rico, will spend the summer of 2007 at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. as a participant in the competitive NASA Academy. Carpena currently attends the University of
Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras.

A new report from the Department of Education reveals Hispanics are driving the surge of the nation‚s minority public school population, but one thing that hasn’t changed is the significant need to improve children’s literacy among children from Hispanic and other minority communities.

As Congress considers the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law an analysis of recent data from standardized testing around the country shows that the fast growing number of students designated as English language learners are among those farthest behind.

The Miami Herald reported today that Univision Communications has invited all Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates to a debate on the network as the Labor Day. The debates will be in Spanish.

Ancestry.com announced the release of the first and only online collection of border crossing records for individuals who crossed the U.S. – Mexico border between 1903 and 1957. This new collection, which includes more than 3.5 million names, is the latest addition to Ancestry.com’s Immigration Records Collection, which also includes the largest online collection of U.S. ship passenger list records featuring more than 100 million names from 1820 to 1960.

A college degree can translate into higher earnings for workers in Puerto Rico — about twice as much on average as those with just a high school diploma — according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS). The contrast in annual earnings was even greater for people with advanced degrees, who earned about three times as much as those with a high school degree.

HispanicAd.com announced the winners of the 7th Annual Excelencia Media Planning Awards at a luncheon during The Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies (AHAA) semi-annual conference in Chicago on Thursday April 26, 2007.

HispanicAd.com presented awards for the best media plans in nine categories as well as the “Gran Plan,” and the Media Executive of the Year.

Nancy Tellet – VP Director of Strategic Planning at Siboney USA was honored by her peers with the “HispanicAd.com 2006 Media Planning Executive of the Year” award at the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies bi-annual conference in Chicago, Illinois on Thursday April 26, 2007.

Javier Saralegui – President of Univision Communications online division Univision.com – was honored by his peers in receiving the 2006 HispanicAd.com ‘Media Executive of the Year’ award at the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies bi-annual conference in Chicago, Illinois on Friday April 27, 2007.