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Immigrant Community Calls on Council to Repeal Frederick County’s English-Only Ordinance

Law Hurts County’s Economy and Community.   Frederick, MD- CASA, Maryland’s largest immigrant rights organization, applauds Councilmember Jessica Fitzwater and Council Vice-President M.C. Keegan-Ayer for introducing Bill 15-08, to repeal Frederick County’s Official English Ordinance passed in 2012, and urges the County Council to move swift passage. Frederick County’s ordinance,…
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Later this Year

By Isaac Cohen* Now that the winter slip in US economic growth appears to be the result of transitory factors, the attention has turned again to the widely expected increase by the central bank of the federal funds interest rate. In a recent speech in Cleveland, Ohio, the Chairwoman of…
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Cedars-Sinai Grants $50,000 to Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services
for the Care of Uninsured Latino Children

CULVER CITY, Calif.  July 14, 2015—Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services has received a $50,000 grant from Cedars-Sinai to provide mental health care for traumatized minors who recently immigrated to the U.S. and have nowhere else to turn for help. Cedars-Sinai established its mental health grant program in 2012 to support…
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Partnership Between D&P Creative Strategies & Impact Strategies

Washington, DC [CapitalWirePR] July 10, 2015 – D&P Creative Strategies and IMPACT Strategies announced their highly anticipated strategic partnership. As 100% women and minority owned firms, both IMPACT Strategies and D&P Creative Strategies are uniquely positioned to provide clients with innovative solutions and multiple service offerings from different, yet strategic…
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Minority Youths Develop Community-Enhancing Video Games

Entertainment Software Association, Hispanic Heritage Foundation award grants to 20 youths who will present their video game concepts at the U.S. Capitol. Washington, D.C. [CapitalWirePR] July 10, 2015 –The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF) Leaders on the Fast Track (LOFT) Video Game Innovation Fellowship announced today…
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Hundreds of Local Leaders, Organizers, and Activists From Washington, D.C. Against Donald Trump

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This Thursday July 9th, candidate for Maryland’s 8th Congressional District, Ana Sol-Gutierrez, joined hundreds of other local leaders, organizers, and activists from Washington D.C. and the greater metropolitan area for a call-to-action against Republican Presidential candidate, Donald Trump. “If you are outraged with what Donald Trump said,…
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Emilio Gonzalez to Receive LULAC’s Inaugural National Corporate Champion of the Year Award

Emilio Gonzalez to Receive LULAC’s Inaugural National Corporate Champion of the Year Award.   WASHINGTON, D.C. [CapitalWirePR] July 9, 2015 – Today, LULAC presented its inaugural Corporate Champion of the Year Award to Emilio Gonzalez, Executive Director of Strategic Alliances for Verizon. The award recognizes an executive in corporate America…
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Flat Wages

By Isaac Cohen* The last figures released by the Labor Department, on employment in June, revealed vigorous hiring at 223,000 new jobs, with flat wages and a lower unemployment rate, of 5.3 percent, due to a decrease in the rate of participation in the labor force. With 57 consecutive months…
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