Medicaid and its sister program, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), buffer millions of Latinos and other vulnerable Americans from uninsurance.  Private health coverage, obtained through the workplace or ...

An unfair minimum wage disproportionately affects Latinos who are concentrated in low-wage jobs. Congress has not raised the federal minimum wage, currently $7.25 per hour, since 2009. Worse, the minimum wage for tipped ...

Making up nearly one-third of all uninsured Americans, Latinos have among the most to gain from effective implementation of the health care law.  Currently, one of every three Hispanics is uninsured, representing nearly ...

The practice of overusing \preexisting condition\ clauses in health insurance contracts is a particularly serious problem for the tens of millions of Americans who have gone uninsured for long periods of time. Sometimes ...

The stakes are high for Latinos when it comes to the fate of health care reform.  The expansion of health coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will substantially increase the number of insured Americans, and new ...

While the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) lifted 6.7 million working families above the poverty line in 2014, more than seven million workers who are not raising children were taxed into—or fell deeper into—poverty. This ...

Latino Nevadans represent a growing and influential population in the Silver State. One out of every three Nevadans is now Hispanic and that number is on the rise. These demographic trends fuel estimates that Nevada will ...

For more than 50 years, anti-poverty programs have helped ensure that working families are lifted out of poverty when times are tough or their wages are too low for them to be able to make ends meet. These programs are ...

This one-pager outlines the importance of Medicaid expansion under the ACA for the Latino community. It includes state-specific data on the Hispanic share of those newly eligible for Medicaid under the expansion and ...

Hit particularly hard by the economic crisis, Hispanic Nevadans have seen commonsense policies put in place and their hard work begin to pay off following the Great Recession. Given the Latino community’s size, work ethic, ...