The US unemployment rate returned to a historic low of 3.5% in December. Not everyone is celebrating, however: Jobless rates for Black women and Latino men still haven’t recovered fully from the pandemic.
[bc_video video_id=”6165003910001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”Hkbio1usDM” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” max_width=”640px” width=”100%” height=”100%”] With tears in her eyes Lizbeth luevanos’s mother, Luz Maria DeLoera, couldn’t contain her excitement, knowing her daughter from Indio is now a graduating high schooler. Still, that’s not the only thing, she’s also accomplished what the majority of east valley students of immigrant […]
Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia made history on Tuesday night after their respective groundbreaking wins led them to become the first Latinas from Texas to represent the state in the U.S. House of Representatives. NBC News calls @vgescobar win with 68.9% of the votes and @SenatorSylvia with 74.3%. The newly-elected Congresswomen are set to become […]
The Coachella Veterans Memorial Park wore the colors of the rainbow during the second annual East Coachella Valley Pride Festival. It was a pride festival but with an eastern valley flair, Fabeyonce turned-up the energy with a drag performance with music by Latina icon Jenni Rivera, and Indio resident and one of the event organizers […]
Coachella Valley Region Around the country, and here in the Coachella Valley, Latinos are marching. Many are holding banners and signs pleading with President Trump to keep the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA. If DACA is canceled, many Latinos in the desert fear deportation and being separated from their loved ones. "It’s really frustrating […]
