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Feb 17 2015
News
The enormous racial opportunity gap in America's metro areas
In the nation's 100 largest metro areas, about 40 percent of black children and 32 percent of Hispanic children live in the lowest-opportunity neighborhoods in their areas, compared to just 9 percent of white children.
Researchers at Brandeis University and Ohio State University analyzed nationwide data from diversitydatakids.org, compiling their findings in the Child Opportunity Index
Vox
Nov 25 2012
News
McCain Says Republicans Need ‘Bigger Tent’ After Election
Republicans “obviously need to push for an overhaul of immigration laws, McCain said. Obama won backing from 71 percent of Hispanic voters on Nov. 6 against Republican challenger Mitt Romney, up from 67 percent in 2008, according to national exit polls that underscored the importance of that fast-growing voting bloc. Democrats also augmented their majority in the Senate and gained seats in
Bloomberg
Sep 25 2020
News
‘That’s Not The Way To Win It’: Swing State Democrats Worry Biden’s Low-Key Campaigning Could Backfire
Some Democrats in critical battlegrounds worry that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is not campaigning vigorously enough in their states.
While Biden has taken a low-key approach to campaign across the country amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Democratic figures in Texas and North Carolina remarked that his method may not be enough to get him 270 electoral votes.
The Daily Caller
Oct 12 2021
Analysis
Why Biden’s approval rating isn’t recovering
President Joe Biden’s honeymoon period came to an end this summer, due, in part, to the rise of the delta variant and a chaotic U.S. exit from Afghanistan. But even as new reported COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations fall and attention on Afghanistan fades, his approval rating hasn’t bounced back.
Though Biden was popular during his early months in office, in July, his approval rating
Deseret News
May 24 2019
News
Study: After President Trump's election, racism among white Americans actually declined
Defying the popular leftist notion that racism has heightened under President Donald Trump, a pair of University of Pennsylvania researchers just published a study concluding that racism among white Americans actually declined following Trump's 2016 election.
"We find that via most measures, white Americans' expressed anti-black and anti-Hispanic prejudice declined after the 2016
The Blaze
May 12 2021
Fact Check
Biden boasts about equitable senior vaccination rate by race without data to back it up
During May 3 remarks on the American Families Plan, President Joe Biden boasted that there was not much disparity in the COVID-19 vaccination rates for white Americans and Americans of color who are at least 65.
“And what’s happening now is all the talk about how people were not going to get shots, they were not going to be involved — look at what that was — we were told that was most
Poynter
May 18 2014
News
San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro Is Said to Be HUD Pick in Cabinet Reshuffling
President Obama is preparing to nominate Mayor Julián Castro of San Antonio as his new secretary of housing and urban development, elevating one of his party’s Hispanic rising stars as part of a cabinet shuffle that has possible implications for the 2016 presidential race, Democrats informed about the plans said on Saturday.
Mr. Castro, who has often been mentioned as a potential vice-
New York Times (News)
Aug 03 2020
News
One year later, El Paso reflects on the hate behind Walmart shooting
Roberto Jurado hid with his 88-year-old mother between toy machines at the entrance of the Cielo Vista Walmart.
Lying in broken glass, he listened as the sound of gunshots grew closer. Then the man with the AK-47 was only 10 feet away.
"That day, I believe I stared death in the eyes," Jurado, 53, said.
But the shooter left after his attention was drawn to a moving
USA TODAY
Jan 09 2020
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DNC chair kicks off ‘battleground’ tour with Latino-focused healthcare talk in Miami
A week after President Donald Trump’s campaign stop at a mostly Hispanic Miami megachurch, Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez came to town to launch a counteroffensive stressing the “broken promises” made by Trump to Latinos when it comes to healthcare coverage.
Calling the effort Latinos Against Trump! Perez told local Democratic leaders Thursday that the Affordable Care Act
Miami Herald
Jan 09 2020
News
GOP governor revives long push for restoring voting rights to Iowa felons
Iowa's Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, is promising to revive her quest to end the state's status as the only place in the country where convicted felons are permanently barred from voting.
She says she is optimistic that when the General Assembly convenes next week, her fellow Republicans in the majority will pass legislation starting a process lasting several years for giving
The Fulcrum