Business

The HispanicAd.com family wishes you and your family a safe and happy Easter weekend.

AOL Latino and Berlitz Languages, Inc., announced that they have joined forces to offer multiple ways for AOL members to learn English at no extra charge. While Spanish dominant and Spanish preferred bilingual Hispanics equal more than 65% of the 40 million Hispanics in the U.S., this special offer provides this growing segment a cost effective and easy way to learn English. And, according to a recent poll on the AOL Latino service, 78% of respondents are interested in taking online English lessons.

Consider what you look forward to at the end of the day. Getting home? Relaxing? Playing in the back yard with the kids? Not answering to anyone? Feeling safe in your environment? Feeling like your provided this safety to your family?

Renowned landscape photographer and environmentalist Clyde Butcher will unveil photographs taken during three expeditions to the mountains of Cuba. The photographs will be shown at his Venice gallery from March 12 through April 30.

In efforts to decrease the underrepresentation of Hispanics in community colleges and universities in California, Latino Education leaders will urge the State Legislature for changes in the Master Plan for Education and a chance for undocumented students to receive government grants to attend institutions of higher education.

This study, conducted in partnership with the Lear Center Local News Archive (University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication), provides important baseline data on how U.S. politics is covered by the Spanish-language broadcast media.

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.

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.

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.