Statistics are alarming. US households own an average of 13 credit cards and owe about $8,000. Forty percent of families spend more than they earn each year. Sadly, one in every 100 families is on the verge of bankruptcy.
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Education Summit On Children, Media and Literacy.
The U.S. Department of Education and PBS are hosting a Ready To Learn summit titled “A Child’s Life: Learning, Literacy and the Role of the Media,” to be held on Feb. 3-4, 2005 at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore, MD.
AAF Increases Number of Most Promising Minority Recruits.
The American Advertising Federation (AAF) Most Promising Minority Students (MPMS) program is providing the highest level of qualified minority candidates in its history to corporations seeking top-tier advertising and marketing talent. Increasing by 60 percent in the last two years, the 2005 MPMS program is the advertising industry’s largest and most comprehensive diversity hiring solution.
LatinoLogues Tour Kicks Off In San Diego.
Rick Najera’s award winning comedy LatinoLogues will kick off its national tour Saturday, January 22, 2005 at 8:00 p.m. for one performance only at San Diego’s Spreckels Theatre.
Condorito In The USA?
Condorito, the star of the world’s most widely syndicated Hispanic comic strip, is about to become the top Hispanic star in the U.S., if his backers at World Editors, Inc. have anything to say about it.
Día de los Reyes.
Three Kings Day is celebrated on January 6th, twelve days after Christmas. It is often viewed as the last day of the Christmas season (the end of the 12 days of Christmas).
Biography New Mexico’s ‘Gran Dama’ Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven.
The fascinating life of 94-year-old pioneering New Mexico “Gran Dama” Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven has now been chronicled in a new, authorized biography by Kathryn M. Cordova titled, ¡Concha! Concha Ortiz y Pino: Matriarch of a 300-Year-Old New Mexico Legacy (La Herencia Gran Via 2004).
Children’s Museum of Manhattan Debuts Dora.
Children can join Nick Jr.’s Latina heroine, Dora the Explorer, at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan (CMOM) on a journey through the first-ever interactive Dora exhibition. Children will overcome obstacles, solve problems and puzzles, and find their way through the exhibition’s Rainforest, all while learning to communicate in both English and Spanish.
Internet Access @ Home Helps Children Be Successful @ School.
How can you help your children have a successful start and improve their future opportunities? How can families find better product and service values? How can you stay in touch with relatives overseas? Every day, more Hispanic families turn to the Internet as a solution for these and other important questions.
Os Pido Posada – A Hispanic Xmas Opportunity.
Welcome to Posada season! Every year Latino families across the country join their neighbors in recreating the procession of Joseph and Mary as they try to find hospice, or “posada.” The ritual started in sixteenth century when Spaniards brought to the tradition with them as part of their religious overhaul of the New World.
Pascualina Pre-teen Diary Lands On US Shores.
Adolescents in the United States can for the first time do what more than 1 million of their peers around the world do daily – share their lives with Pascualina, their award-winning interactive diary.
Philadelphia’s Taller Puertorriqueño 30th Anniversary.
Taller Puertorriqueño, a Puerto Rican arts center in Philadelphia, will commemorate its 30th anniversary with a new exhibit called Isla del Burén: The Taíno and their Predecessors in Puerto Rico. This is the first art exhibition of the Puerto Rican Taíno (The Taíno were the dominant culture in the Caribbean in pre-Columbian times) to be shown in North America.
