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The politics of hiring a nanny

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If you’ve ever driven around my current hometown of Los Angeles, you know that Latinas pushing strollers of white, blue-eyed children is a common sight. These women are usually nannies, and they get paid to raise the kids of movie stars, TV executives, and Beverly Hills trust fund millionaires. Well, ok, not everyone who hires Read More

Finding purpose by connecting with our roots

Jessenia Martinez

As a psychic, when 2013 was approaching you would have thought I had a direct line to the Aztecs the way my email and phone were blowing up. I found an increase of both apprehension and excitement – was the world ending, ascending, changing? What was happening? Those who knew I was a bruja, but Read More

Can Latinos still achieve the American Dream?

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A year ago, I wrote about how the Great Recession hit Latinos hard. At the time, I was hopeful that the worst was behind us. Perhaps that was my natural Latino tendency to be optimistic. After all, Latinos “are worse off, but they are still more positive about where the country is going” compared to Read More