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Arizona Latino Students & English Learners Fast Facts 2020
(UnidosUS, 2020-03-09)There are 505,584 Latino students and more than 75,000 English Learners in Arizona's public schools. Fairness and equity in education have long been core American values underlying the promise of equal opportunity in the ... -
Latino Students and English Learners Fast Facts 2020
(UnidosUS, 2020-03-05)There are more than 13 million Latino students and 5 million English Learners in our nation’s public schools. Fairness and equity in education have long been core American values underlying the promise of equal opportunity ... -
Latinos’ Eligibility to Save in a Workplace Retirement Plan
(UnidosUS, 2020-02-28)This document explores Latinos’ eligibility to participate in a retirement savings plan and proposes policy improvements to increase eligibility for Latinos. -
Comprando Rico y Sano (Buying Healthy and Flavorful Foods)
(UnidosUS, 2020-02-21)UnidosUS’s program—led by community health workers (promotores de salud)—seeks to reduce hunger and instill healthy shopping and eating habits among Latinos through nutrition education and enrollment assistance in the ... -
Nevada State Fact Sheet
(UnidosUS, 2020-02-12)Over the past decade, Latinos have sealed their place as the country’s largest minority group. With the expanded national presence of this vibrant and youthful population, Hispanics increasingly contribute to the economic, ... -
Access to High Quality Early Childhood Education
(UnidosUS, 2020-02-07)By 2060, Latino children will comprise one-third (32%) of the three-to-four-year-old population. Latino children are a large and rapidly growing group in need of appropriate, high quality ECE. It is crucial that state and ... -
Improving Child Care in the United States for Families and Women of Color
(UnidosUS, 2019-12-23)Child care is fundamental to the economic security of women and families, but is out of reach for many. Child care is one of the highest costs in a family’s monthly budget, and is often a larger expense than the cost of ... -
Latinos in Pennsylvania: Building a Secure Economic Future
(UnidosUS, 2019-12-16)Despite ongoing inequities where Latinos lag behind other Pennsylvania residents, gains across several economic indicators point to better economic security for Latinos. This fact sheet explores those indicators and ... -
Weakening the Community Reinvestment Act Will Make It Harder for Latino Families to Get Ahead
(UnidosUS, 2019-12-09)This month, the Trump administration is expected to issue a new rule that would significantly weaken the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)—a 1977 historic civil rights law enacted to curb discriminatory practices in lending ... -
Unaffordable Housing: A Barrier to Latino Asset-Building
(UnidosUS, 2019-12-06)By 2030, Latinos are projected to make up 21% of the population and 37% of new households. As a result, the Latino community will play an increasingly important role in advancing our nation’s economic prosperity. This ... -
Educational Equity: Latino and English Learner Success in Arizona
(UnidosUS, 2019-12-02)Arizona has an opportunity to ensure the state’s future economic success by advancing policies and practices that support the educational achievement of Latino students who represent a large share of the K-12 population ... -
Beyond Wages: Effects of the Latina Wage Gap
(UnidosUS, 2019-11-20)A persistent gender-based wage gap continues to harm women, their families, and the economy—and is particularly damaging for Latinas. -
Latino Non-Standard Work Arrangements in 2018
(UnidosUS, 2019-11-19)Latino Non-Standard Work Arrangements in 2018: A Snapshot of the Federal Reserve Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED) One of the many issue areas addressed by the survey is involvement in non-standard ... -
Observations from the 2018 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data
(UnidosUS, 2019-11-06)Using home loan data from the 2018 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), UnidosUS identified key indicators that illustrate how Latinos fared in the mortgage market, in particular their access to a mortgage for a home ... -
Latinos in California: Building a Secure Economic Future
(UnidosUS, 2019-11-05)Despite ongoing inequities where Latinos lag behind other California residents, gains across several economic indicators point to better economic security for Latinos. Given the size of the Latino population in California, ... -
Ready to Work: Digital Literacy and the Latino Workforce
(UnidosUS, 2019-10-30)With more than 28 million Latinos in the workforce, there is an urgent need for our community to have and maintain the skills necessary to succeed. Today, 53% of jobs in the United States are middle-skill jobs, meaning ... -
Latinos In Colorado: Economic Standing of Latino Families in the Centennial State
(UnidosUS, 2019-10-02)Hit hard by the economic crisis, Hispanics in Colorado have seen their hard work pay off following the Great Recession. Gains across several economic indicators point to improved economic security for Latinos, despite ... -
Latino Tax Priorities
(UnidosUS, 2019-09-26)There are several opportunities to amend the tax code to better support Hispanic communities. This document explores these opportunities and discusses ways to improve the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); Child Tax Credit ... -
Latino Policy Priorities for Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act
(UnidosUS, 2019-09-13)Latino policy priorities for reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA). -
The Saver’s Tax Credit + CalSavers = A Reward for Saving for Retirement
(UnidosUS, 2019-09-12)Starting in July 2019, California began offering an estimated seven million workers in the state the opportunity to contribute to an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) through the CalSavers program. Participation in the ...
