Santiago D. Távara

In a major victory for struggling homeowners who fell victim to predatory lending and wrongful foreclosures, the Obama administration and a coalition of state Attorneys General announced this week a $25 billion settlement with five of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers—Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and Ally…

  Rule aims to make jobs more accessible to US workers and strengthen worker protections The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration and its Wage and Hour Division announced a final rule to improve the H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker program. The rule, to be published in the Feb.…

"NO SOMOS RUBIOS" Campaign Protest in Washington DC highlights continued disconnect between Rubio and majority of Latinos   Young Latino students held a protest and press conference this week outside the 2012Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), raising legitimate concerns about Senator Marco Rubio’s anti-immigrant positions and questioning his opposition to…