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The Census Bureau may change how it asks about race and ethnicity, a shift that could end what one advocate called the 'painful irony' of Native Americans, Latinos and those of Middle Eastern or North African descent having to identify as white or 'other.'

A proposal by the Census Bureau could overhaul the way it questions race and ethnicity, in an attempt to “ensure that all people are able to identify themselves within one or more of the minimum categories," and "categories reflect meaningful and easy to understand distinctions.” Read more»

Hobbs’ budget includes a historic $150 million allocation for the state’s Housing Trust Fund, and injects a one-time funding boost of $300 million into K-12 education.

Latino voters turned out in force to help deliver the state’s top position to Gov. Katie Hobbs, but pro-immigrant groups say the newly approved budget, the culmination of her first year in office, fails to live up to their hopes. Read more»

El autismo en Arizona y en todo EE. UU. está en aumento a medida que la conciencia ha llevado a una detección más temprana en las comunidades de color, dijeron el lunes expertos en salud de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades.

El autismo está en aumento, ya que la conciencia ha llevado a una detección más temprana en las comunidades de color, y la investigación reveló que el trastorno del espectro autista no se basa tanto en las "diferencias biológicas" como en las circunstancias socioeconómicas. Read more»

De izquierda a derecha, Todd Bailey, Joyce Bailey, Brenda Urquiza y Tara Kebbs, se reunieron en marzo de 2021 en el Arizona Heritage Center en Tempe para rendir homenaje a los arizonenses que murieron por COVID-19. Un estudio de The Lancet en marzo dice que Arizona registró 581 muertes por cada 100,000 personas, la tasa más alta en los EE. UU.

Arizona tuvo la tasa de mortalidad por COVID-19 más alta del país, una tasa similar a la de las tres naciones con las tasas de muerte por coronavirus más altas del mundo, y los latinos y los negros tenían más probabilidades de morir por COVID-19 que otros grupos raciales. Read more»

Todd Bailey, Joyce Bailey, Brenda Urquiza and Tara Kebbs, from left, gathered in March 2021 at the Arizona Heritage Center in Tempe to pay respects and honor the Arizonans who died from COVID-19. A Lancet study in March says Arizona recorded 581 deaths per 100,000 people – the highest rate in the U.S.

Arizona had the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths in the nation over three years, a death rate similar to that of the three nations with the highest coronavirus death rates in the world, and Latinos and Blacks were more likely to die of COVID-19 than other racial groups. Read more»

U.S. Small Business Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman speaks at Mercado San Agustín on Thursday alongside Tucson Mayor Regina Romero to tout Biden's economic plan and promise more investment in small businesses and Latino entrepreneurs.

White House Cabinet member Isabella Casillas Guzman joined Tucson Mayor Regina Romero on Thursday to promise investment by the Biden administration in local shops and in Latino small business owners. Read more»

La administradora de pequeñas empresas de EE. UU. Isabella Casillas Guzmán habla en el Mercado San Agustín el jueves junto con la Alcaldesa de Tucson Regina Romero para promocionar el plan económico de Biden y prometer más inversiones en pequeñas empresas y empresarios latinos.

La miembro del gabinete de la Casa Blanca, Isabella Casillas Guzmán, se unió a la Alcaldesa de Tucson Regina Romero el jueves para prometer inversiones por parte de la administración Biden en tiendas locales y en propietarios de pequeñas empresas latinas. Read more»

La nueva campaña publicitaria en español de Vamos a Tucson dirigida a los turistas hispanos está marcando al Viejo Pueblo como el destino para ellos al destacar el patrimonio de la ciudad y los eventos multiculturales. Read more»

Visit Tucson's new Spanish-language advertising campaign aimed at Hispanic tourists is branding the Old Pueblo as the destination for them by spotlighting the city’s heritage and multicultural events. Read more»

An Arizona National Guard soldier tests a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation for COVID-19 in Santa Rosa in August, 2020.

The true toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on many communities of color — from Portland, Oregon, to Navajo Nation tribal lands in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, to sparsely populated rural Texas towns — is worse than previously known. Read more»

Tyequan Colkey, 19, es un estudiante de 12º grado de El Dorado High School, una preparatoria chárter de Chandler, Ariz., que no suspende a los estudiantes por infracciones de asistencia.

Para el año escolar 2021-22, los distritos de todo el país enfrentaban lo que muchos denominaron una crisis de ausentismo debido a que el cierre de escuelas relacionado con la pandemia causó estragos en la asistencia, y los educadores tuvieron que actuar. Read more»

Los estudiantes pueden perder clases por varias razones, incluidos problemas de transporte, responsabilidades familiares o desvinculación de la escuela.

Los estudiantes de Arizona son suspendidos por no presentarse a clase, y los datos muestran que los estudiantes negros, latinos y nativos americanos con frecuencia están sobrerrepresentados entre los que no pueden asistir a clases por faltar a clase. Read more»

Students walk across the Arizona State University campus in Tempe on Aug. 24, 2022. According to a report from the Student Borrower Protection Center, 90% of Black and 72% of Latinx students take out loans to attend college, compared with 66% of white students.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, more than 800,000 Arizonans have federal student loan debt. By canceling it, advocates say, Black and Latino incomes could increase and help reduce the racial wealth gap. Read more»

In 2020, the electorate was older, whiter, more female and more educated than the country as a whole - a consistent pattern in American elections, even as the nation has become more diverse.

The turnout for 2022 is still coming into focus as the last ballots continue to be tallied - but it looks to be unusually high for a midterm election - and the way that voter turnout is calculated reveals who counts, and who is left out, in American elections. Read more»

From left: Democratic Reps.-elect Robert Garcia, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Greg Casar, Gabe Vasquez, Andrea Salinas, Maxwell Alejandro Frost, Yadira Caraveo, Delia Ramirez, Rob Menendez.

The campaign arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus welcomed the highest number of Democratic Latino lawmakers elected to Congress - even as several Republican Latinos also were elected to Congress, and many of those soon-to-be lawmakers have already made history. Read more»

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