Tag: Latinos

  • San Diego ACLU’s Emphasis on Latino Civil Rights Growing

    By Marissa Cabrera, Peggy Pico and Alison St. John The coming year will be a big one for the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties. It will not only celebrate its 25th year, but given the shifting demographics, it also plans to increase its emphasis on Latino issues. To set the organization’s local priorities,…

  • Latino Voter Registration Surges

    By Adrian Florido The San Diego County Registrar of Voters Office said registration by Latinos has surged in the lead-up to next week’s general election. Since February, an average of about 12,600 new voters registered each month, according to registrar data. Almost 5,000 of those each month, or about 40 percent, were Latinos. Considering that Latinos are…

  • Tweet City Heights: Students Raise Thousands for Cancer Research

    By Megan Burks Latinos Worse Off Than African Americans When It Comes to Health Coverage A recent poll by National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health found Latinos are most likely to go without health insurance or grapple with patchy coverage plans. The study results debunk a…

  • Mayoral Candidates Debate Latino Issues

    By Adrian Florido San Diego’s four major mayoral candidates debated in front of a couple hundred Latino voters at the University of San Diego Thursday evening. | Photo Credit: KPBS Close to 30 percent of this city’s population is now Latino, and yet this was the first time many here could remember candidates for mayor…

  • More Latinos Get College Degrees, But Education Gap Widens

    By Adrian Florido For the first time ever, the number of U.S. adults with bachelor’s degrees has surpassed 30 percent. But new data shows the higher education gap between Latinos and other ethnic groups is getting wider. In 2001, 11 percent of all U.S. Latinos over the age of 25 had bachelor’s degrees. By last year, that…