The Act 22 tax incentive, enacted in 2012, has been the most effective tool to attract rich outsiders to the island, while local Puerto Ricans are losing their homes and neighborhoods.
The entertainment industry is facing a wake-up call with the ongoing Writers' Strike, but for Latinos, the lack of representation goes deeper, as they continue to be the most underrepresented group in the entertainment industry.
The wage gap for Latina women is a stark reminder of the work that still needs to be done.
A devastating fire at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico has left at least 40 migrants dead. Despite video evidence of guards ignoring the trapped migrants, President Lopez Obrador blamed the victims for starting the fire, ignoring any guard wrongdoing.
Early reports about the tragic death of Pvt. Ana Basaldua Ruiz, a Latina soldier stationed at Fort Hood, a base near Killeen, Texas, notorious for violence and hostile work conditions, indicates that sexual harassment had a role to play in her death that is being investigated as a death by suicide.
Equal Pay Day is a powerful reminder of the persistent and unjust gender wage gap that plagues our society and yet, the topic comes up only a few times a year.
16 year old Susana Morales was found murdered more than six months after being reported missing. Her alleged killer, former police officer Miles Bryant had a history of violence, including a stalking report his police department did not investigate.
Despite headlines often describing her as an "undocumented immigrant wife," she was not nameless. Her friends and family lovingly called her "Anggy."
Did you know that the average Latina must work almost an entire additional year to catch up to what an average white man made the previous year?
Women's Equal Pay Day 2021 is the day that marks how far into the new year the average woman must work to match what the average man made the year before.
