Hispanic & Latino Issues

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[edit] Where do Progressives Stand?

Support for:

  • Equitable funding for all schools including programming for students learning English as a second language.
  • The establishment of programs to provide Latino owned businesses with economic resources.
  • Creating alternative school and GED options as well as college placement assistance in lower income and predominantly Latino neighborhoods.
  • Advocating for reform in the criminal justice system to ensure that racial profiling and disparity in sentencing is discontinued.
  • Maintaining human immigration policy that allows long term residents to be citizens, provides work visas, and ensures that health care, specifically emergency medicine, is available to immigrants.
  • Ensuring that public Social Security is maintained and improved to increase coverage.
  • Fighting racism within our community by educating ourselves and challenging racism in our schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods.

[edit] Hot Topics

[edit] Social Security

In 2004, 41% of Latino seniors relied on Social Security for their sole source of income, a stark contrast to the 22% of the overall population of the elderly in the United States. 1 Recent Social Security reform plans advocating privatization can deeply affect low income Latino seniors, as private Social Security accounts would be virtually unaffordable. Latinos in general would be severely affected

[edit] Education

Latino youth have an incredibly high dropout rate within the state of Colorado, primarily to do with the high concentration of Latinos in poorly funded schools. Additionally, students speaking English as a second language are forced into English speaking classrooms long before they can understand class content and communicate with fellow students or teachers.

[edit] Immigration

Current discussions regarding immigration reform have had both positive and negative suggestions for the Latino community. While a moderate and humane policy of providing work visas, permanent residency to individuals in the states after several years, and provisions of health care assistance to immigrant families. However, extreme individuals such as Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado can be found advocating for closed boarders and militias to patrol such lines. This initiative has received increased publicity, resulting in a new wave of anti-Latino racism.

[edit] Health

Exclusion of immigrants from federally funded healthcare programs, leaving millions of families to resort to clinics and public hospitals for care. Furthermore, health professionals are gradually becoming more bilingual, a critical step to ensure that non-English speaking Latinos are fully educated about health circumstances and options.

[edit] In the News

[edit] Facts and Statistics

  • The highest attempted suicide rate in the U.S. is among Latino youth. 4
  • 27.1% of Latinos live below the poverty line (compared to 11% of whites.)
  • 34.2% of Latinos have no health insurance (compared to 15% of whites.)

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This article incorporates text from Colopedia.org through a prior agreement with the content creators.

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