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Census Bureau briefing

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Michael Martinez, David Ariosto - Mar. 24 (News Report) - The growing Hispanic population in the United States has reached a new milestone, topping 50 million, or 16.3% of the nation, officially solidifying its position as the country's second-largest group, U.S. Census Bureau officials said Thursday. "Overall, we've learned that our nation's population has become more racially and ethnically diverse over the past 10 years," Nicholas A. Jones, chief of the bureau's racial statistics branch, told reporters.

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Judge orders reinstatement of gay officer fired under 'don't ask, don't tell'

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Carol J. Williams - Sep. 25 (News Report) - The U.S. military violated the constitutional rights of a decorated Air Force Reserve flight nurse when it discharged her under the "don't ask, don't tell" ban on gays in the armed forces, a federal judge said Friday in ordering her reinstatement. U.S. District Judge Ronald B. Leighton's order applied only to Maj. Margaret Witt, but the judge in Tacoma, Wash., made it clear that a blanket policy of dismissing openly gay military personnel from the armed forces violated an appeals court holding that such action was justified only if it advanced important military objectives.

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Bush Campaign Chief and Former RNC Chair, Ken Mehlman: I'm Gay

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Marc Ambinder - Aug. 25 (Special Report) - Ken Mehlman, President Bush's campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay.

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How racial profiling cases changed Arizona policing

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Arizona Republic - By JJ Hensley, Michelle Ye Hee Lee - Jul. 26 (Special Report) - Arizona's new illegal-immigration enforcement law has raised a host of concerns from critics, but none more prevalent than the pervasive fear that the law will lead police officers to target those who look Hispanic. Those concerns are not unfounded.

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What is the Tea Party? A growing state of mind

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - By Susan Page, Naomi Jagoda - Jul. 02 (Special Report) - A year and a half after the idea of a Tea Party burst into view, three of 10 Americans describe themselves in the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll as Tea Party supporters — equal to the number who call themselves Republicans — though many of them acknowledge they aren't exactly sure what that allegiance means.

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Record number of Indian-Americans seeking office

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Jun. 21 (News Report) - Meet Reshma, Surya, Manan, Raj, Ami, Ravi, Nimrata and Kamala — a new wave of Indian-American politicians. At least eight children of Indian immigrants are running for Congress or statewide office, the most ever. The star of this trend is Nikki Haley, born Nimrata Nikki Randhawa, who is favored to win the election for governor of South Carolina.

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Minority population growing in the United States, census estimates show

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Nicole Santa Cruz - Jun. 11 (News Report) - Across the nation, the number of minorities continues to rise and the white population continues to decline, according to U.S. census estimates released Thursday.

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Ringworm and Radiation

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The People's Voice - By Barry Chamish - Jun. 06 (News Report) - In 1951, the director general of the Israeli Health Ministry, Dr. Chaim Sheba, flew to America and returned with seven x-ray machines, supplied to him by the American army. They were to be used in a mass atomic experiment with an entire generation of Sephardi youths to be used as guinea pigs. Every Sephardi child was to be given 35,000 times the maximum dose of x-rays through his head. For doing so, the American government paid the Israeli government 300 million Israeli liras a year. The entire Health budget was 60 million liras. The money paid by the Americans is equivalent to billions of dollars today.

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Arizona immigration law could drive Latinos out of state

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Arizona Republic - By Daniel González - Apr. 28 (News Report) - More than 100,000 undocumented immigrants have left Arizona in the past two years because of the bad economy and earlier enforcement crackdowns. Now, a new wave of Latinos is preparing to leave. And it isn't just illegal immigrants: Legal residents and U.S. citizens also say they will leave Arizona because they view the state as unfriendly to Hispanics.

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Arizona immigration law: Hispanics vow, 'We're going to fight'

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Daniel B. Wood - Apr. 28 (News Report) - Through rallies and angry comments like Rodriguez's, the Hispanic community is giving the first signs that Arizona's immigration law could stir a similar response today to the one that greeted California's Proposition 187 more than decade ago.

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The return of Indian entrepreneurship

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

indiancountrytoday.com - By Jack Stevens - Apr. 02 (Special Report) - America’s newest entrepreneurs are successfully launching products and going after international markets from the least likely of places – remote, hardscrabble Indian reservations.

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Energy development for Indians: Harvesting the air

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Mar. 31 (News Report) - Tribes in the Dakotas and Montana alone have enough wind to generate more than 886m megawatt hours a year. Even if only one per cent were developed, this would bring in $3.6 billion over 20 years, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Now a growing number of tribes on the plains hope that wind will bring prosperity, at last. They are not alone. Indian nations across the country are exploring renewable energy, from solar to geothermal. A new bill would speed development. But tribes may have to wait a while yet.

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Facebook releases first-ever demographic look at users

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

San Jose Mercury News - By Mike Swift - Dec. 17 (News Report) - Illustrating the growing diversity of online users as the Internet matures, a study by Facebook researchers found that about 11 percent of the social network's approximately 100 million U.S. members were African-American, about 9 percent were Latino and 6 percent were Asian, according to a blog Facebook posted Wednesday evening — a much higher share for blacks and Latinos than four years ago.

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A call for Obama officials to improve Native voting rights

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

indiancountrytoday.com - By Rob Capriccioso - Oct. 12 (News Report) - Voter rights advocates are calling on the Obama administration’s Justice Department to improve the system for Native Americans.

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Minority Groups Raise Voices on Reform

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Krissah Thompson - Oct. 08 (Special Report) - In the debate over revamping the health-care system, there are the doctors and nurses, the insurance companies and industry lobbyists, and the patients with preexisting conditions, among others. With so many interest groups, the conversation is loud and getting louder.

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Minority groups to air health care ads

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - By USA TODAY's Congress Team - Oct. 06 (News Report) - A coalition of African-American and Hispanic groups said today it will launch an advertising blitz on health care this week. The groups expect to spend as much as $500,000 on television and print ads targeted at lawmakers who represent large black and Latino populations in support of changing the nation's health care system.

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ACORN Loses Its Funding From Big Foundations

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Susan Kinzie - Oct. 02 (News Report) - The liberal political organizing group ACORN, battered by the release of embarrassing videos and allegations of financial mismanagement and fraud, has also been losing support from several major foundations

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Can Mere Existence of Obama Administration Reduce Test Stereotype Threat

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - Apr. 24 (News Analysis) - Research of Culture blogger Sameer Pandya writes about The Institute for Research on Education Policy and Practice at Stanford University, which has just released a study on the effects of the California High School Exit Exam on graduation rates that found negative effects of the CAHSEE fall disproportionately on minority and female students.

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Unemployment Rose Sharply Among Latino Immigrants in 2008

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Pew Research - By Rakesh Kochhar - Feb. 12 (Research) - The current recession is having an especially severe impact on employment prospects for immigrant Hispanics, according to an analysis of the latest Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center. The unemployment rate for foreign-born Hispanics increased from 5.1% to 8.0%, or by 2.9 percentage points, from the fourth quarter of 2007 to the fourth quarter of 2008. During this same time period, the unemployment rate for all persons in the labor market increased from 4.6% to 6.6%, or by 2.0 percentage points.

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