Ruben Navarrette is Contributor for USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal, weekly commentator for CNN.com, member of the Editorial Board of The San Diego Tribune, among others. He is a highly controversial journalist with a passion for the immigration issue. We talked immigration, politics, Obama, etc. We even talked about his very “interesting” interview with Lou Dobbs. To read El BLOG click above.
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Economic Mobility and the American Dream.
Since our nation’s founding, the promise of economic opportunity has been a central component of the American Dream. And while the Dream remains a unifying tenet for an increasingly diverse society, it may be showing signs of wear. Growing income inequality and slower economic growth suggest that now is an important moment to review the facts about opportunity and mobility in America and to attempt to answer the basic question: Is the American Dream alive and well?
Monica Lozano named to President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
Monica Lozano, Senior VP, Publisher & CEO of La Opinión has been named to President Obama’s newly formed Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
Hispanics and the New Administration – Immigration Slips as a Top Priority.
A year and a half after a lengthy, often rancorous debate over immigration reform filled the chambers of a stalemated Congress, the issue appears to have receded in importance among one of the groups most affected by it–Latinos. Only three-in-ten (31%) Latinos rate immigration as an “extremely important” issue facing the incoming Obama administration, placing it sixth on a list of seven policy priorities that respondents were asked to assess in a nationwide survey of 1,007 Latino adults conducted from December 3 through December 10, 2008, by the Pew Hispanic Center.
Post-Election Survey provides In-Depth analysis of Latino Vote.
A new post-election analysis of record turnout among Latino voters shows strong support for President-elect Obama and Democrats, but also reveals high expectations in the Latino community.
So where’s Cuauhtemoc?
Barack Obama. Rahm Emanuel. All we need now is a Cuauhtemoc roaming the halls of the White House. Seriously, it is quite an exciting time to be living in the U.S. as some people with some uncommon names are on the verge of assuming tremendous power. And isn’t ironic that a leading Hispanic in contention for a Obama cabinet post has the distinction of having a name like Bill Richardson. Or that one of the members of Obama’s economic advisory team with whom he met last Friday is a guy named Antonio Villaraigosa.
by Manny Gonzalez – abece. To read El Blog CLICK above.
