KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Joe Biden made his first trip to Florida as the Democratic presidential nominee on Tuesday with an urgent mission to boost support among Latinos who could decide the election in one of the nation's fiercest battleground states. “More than any other time, the Hispanic community, Latino community...
COVID-19 Is Ravaging America's Vulnerable Latino Communities
GUADALUPE, Ariz. — A Hispanic immigrant working at a fast-food restaurant in North Carolina is rushed to the hospital after she contracts COVID-19. A sickened Honduran woman in Baltimore with no health insurance or immigration status avoids the doctor for two weeks and finally takes a cab to the hospital...
Report: Blacks, Latinos at Risk of Undercount in 2020 Census
ORLANDO, Fla. — Emily Bonilla is worried her district in metro Orlando will be undercounted during next spring's once-in-a-decade head count of everybody in the United States because of who lives there: new arrivals, immigrants, the poor, renters and rural residents who sometimes regard government with suspicion. "We're growing so...
Why Birthrates Among Hispanic Americans Have Plummeted
By Sabrina Tavernise WENDELL, N.C. — Yoselin Wences grew up with a constant refrain from her parents, immigrants from Mexico who became a landscaper and a cook. “The mindset was, ‘Don’t be like us,'” she said. “'Don’t get married early. Don’t have children early. Don’t be one of those teen moms. We...