In Huffpost “In many ways, environmental issues are connected to many of the other causes close to my heart: civic participation, workers’ rights, immigration and health care.”It is time to recognize that we can no longer turn a blind eye to the uniq ...
NHLA’S Latino Leaders Chart Bold Strategy to Advance Community Interests
In Huffpost At this pivotal time in American politics, the work of the leading Latino coalition in the nation is more important than ever in order to achieve unity to advance the Latino agenda. The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA) brings to ...
Raise Your Voice to Raise Wages
In Huffpost There are many signs that the economy is recovering, but we still have a long way to go. It is true that jobs are more plentiful now; the unemployment rate is at its lowest point since 2008. In fact, Latinos were the first population grou ...
Low-wage Latino workers could be key to 2016 election
In Orlando Sentinel Two in five working Latinos would get a raise under the bill recently introduced in Congress by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., to raise the federal minimum wage to $12 per hour over five years.The federal ...
Top Latino Priorities for the 114th Congress
In Huffpost As a coalition of 39 preeminent Latino organizations, the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA) seeks to influence public policy to ensure that Latino interests are taken into account at the national level. This is an important time ...
No exceptions for racial profiling
In The Hill The killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and other unarmed African American men by police officers have sparked a much-needed national conversation on the urgent need to address biased policing. As U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder pre ...
We Still Need the Voting Rights Act
In Huffpost One Year After the Supreme Court’s Shelby decision, Congress Must Act to Modernize VRAAnniversaries are normally a cause for celebration. But there is no joy in Latino communities across the country over this week’s one-year anniversary o ...
Stop Devastating Latino Families With Senseless Deportations and Pass Immigration Bill This Year
In Huffpost Over six years have passed since Barack Obama was elected President of the United States with 67 percent of Latino voters behind him. In 2012, he secured his re-election with 71 percent of Latino voters on his side. For many Latino voters ...
No More Excuses: The Time Has Come to Translate Latino Population Growth Into Political Clout and Political Posts
In Huffpost What do California, Nevada, Florida and Texas have in common? If you guessed that they are all states highly populated by Latinos you are correct. And if you guessed that all of these states also have dismal records of appointing Latinos ...
It Is Time for the EPA to Step Up Protection of Farmworkers
In Huffpost How valuable is a man or woman? How valuable is a farmworker? How do you measure the value of a life?These are questions Cesar E. Chavez once asked us to consider.The revered labor and civil rights leader appealed to our humanity and soci ...