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Community-Driven Strategies to Reduce Food Insecurity and Hunger among Latinos
(UnidosUS, 2018-06-04)All children and families should have the opportunity to lead a long, healthy, and productive life. However, too many Americans lack critical building blocks for good health, including consistent access to affordable, ... -
How Are States Including English Language Proficiency in ESSA Plans?
(UnidosUS, 2018-05-30)The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has ushered in an era of renewed focus on English learners (ELs) in states' accountability systems. Under ESSA, states are now required to develop an English language proficiency (ELP) ... -
How Have States Set Goals for English Learners in ESSA Plans?
(UnidosUS, 2018-05-30)The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires states to outline their academic and English language proficiency goals and provide a detailed proposal for the statewide accountability system in a state ESSA plan. This ... -
Making Citizenship Affordable for All
(2016-06-27)This brief first describes USCIS’s fee review process to explain how the fee is established, and explores the effect of the fee on naturalization rates. The brief will provide related recommendations for the administration ... -
Amicus Brief - NILC SEIU
(2015-04-06)Pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 29 and Fifth Circuit Rule 29, the American Immigration Council, National Immigration Law Center, Service Employees International Union and 151 other immigrant’s rights, civil ... -
Closing the Health Care Coverage Gap in Texas: A Latino Perspective
(2014-08-19)This issue brief covers key potential benefits of Medicaid expansion on Latinos in Texas. -
Readiness to Implement the Affordable Care Act in the Latino Community
(2014-08-18)Readiness to Implement the Affordable Care Act in the Latino Community Among Health Centers and Community-Based Organizations Community health centers (CHCs) and community-based organizations (CBOs) are well-suited to ... -
Giving Them an Edge? The Effects of Work Experience on the Employment Prospects of Latino Young Men
(2014-06-11)This brief summarizes the results of NCLR's quantitative analysis of the marginal effects of work experience on the employment prospects of millennials. It focuses on Latino young men, offering an overview of the structural ... -
Medicaid Expansion in Florida: A Latino Perspective
(2014-05-22)This policy brief highlights current failure to expand Medicaid in Florida under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has had a disparate, adverse impact on the health of the Latino community. -
Preparing Young Latino Children for School Success: Best Practices in Professional Development
(2012-08-23)This policy brief examines the importance of professional development as it applies to high-quality instruction for young Latino and ELL students and how it can be provided within the context of current workforce constraints. -
Preparing Young Latino Children for School Success: Best Practices in Assessments
(2012-08-23)This policy brief highlights the importance of developing effective assessments for young ELLs, highlights a best practice in the field, and concludes with policy recommendations which highlight how to bring effective ... -
Preparing Young Latino Children for School Success: Best Practices in Family Engagement
(2012-08-23)This policy brief discusses the opportunities and challenges associated with family engagement strategies, highlights a best practice in the field, and concludes with policy recommendations for bringing these programs to scale. -
The Impact of Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act on the Latino Community
(2010-08-12)The recent signing of Arizona SB 1070 and subsequent reactions to the law have brought significant attention to the dangers of state-level immigration enforcement and the urgent need for comprehensive federal immigration ... -
A Teacher’s Guide to State English Language Learner Assessment and Accountability
(2009-10-28)Assessing English language learner (ELL) students and including them appropriately in accountability systems is a complex process. Too little research and too few answers currently guide assessment and accountability ... -
Reducing Poverty for Latino Seniors
(2009-02-05)The importance of Social Security to Latinos cannot be ignored: in 2004, 43% of older Hispanics who received Social Security relied on it as their sole source of income. This issue brief provides background on the Social ... -
Health Tax Incentives: Healthy Choices or Bad Medicine?
(2009-01-15)Currently, millions of American lives are at risk because, for the uninsured, even the most basic medical care is unaffordable. With an uninsurance rate of one in three (32.1%), Latinos are the Americans most in need of ... -
Latino Credit Card Use: Debt Trap or Ticket to Prosperity?
(2007-02-15)Moving Latino families into the ranks of the American middle class will undoubtedly entail more Hispanic workers having access to and using credit cards. It is imperative that policy-makers and experts have a better ... -
Improving Assessment & Accountability for English Language Learners in the No Child Left Behind Act
(2006-03-22)This report by the National Council of La Raza examines the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) on English language learners (ELLs). It concludes that while the law has not been implemented adequately, it holds ... -
Jeopardizing Hispanic Homeownership: Predatory Practices in the Homebuying Market
(2005-05-25)For many American families, homeownership is the most important vehicle for building wealth. This is especially true for Latinos, whose wealth levels lag behind those of non-Hispanic Whites by more than ten to one, which ... -
Achieving a High-Quality Preschool Teacher Corps: A Focus on California
(2005-02-28)The issue brief, Achieving a High-Quality Preschool Teacher Corps: A Focus on California , examines the urgent need for a preschool teacher workforce in California that effectively addresses the needs of Latino children. ...
