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When most people reach their 60s, they have a long, relaxing retirement to look forward to, with much of their income provided by Social Security. However, for the majority of older female immigrants, those Social Security benefits don’t exist. As a result, their retirement years are spent working as caretakers…
On Tuesday, July 7, hopeful U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called for legislative changes that would allow Puerto Rico’s public entities to restructure their collective $72 billion in debt under the protection of U.S. bankruptcy law. Currently, U.S. bankruptcy law excludes Puerto Rico, which is an unincorporated U.S. territory…
In the race to win North American auto manufacturing, Mexico is not just keeping pace with U.S. plants, but gaining fast in 2015. And Detroit, which has long been the auto capital of North America, is losing out on new jobs this year to both southern U.S. states and Mexican…
There’s no short supply of things that can cause depression in adolescents: academic stress, heartbreak, divorcing parents, family financial struggles, low self-esteem. The list goes on. Even a home’s decor can make a person gloomy, as 14% of people recently reported in a survey. According to a new study published…
Residents of East Los Angeles, a predominantly Latino area, are expressing concerns that further light rail or freeway construction in the area will expose them and their children to harmful pollution. “I’ve had enough of those who want to continue taking advantage of East L.A. because we are Latinos,” said…
Blaming “out of control” vaping, Hawaii has become the first state in the nation to raise its smoking age to 21. The new law, which will go into effect on January 1, 2016, will ban the sale of tobacco cigarettes and electronic cigarettes to anyone under the age of 21,…
A nursing home in Mexico designed to take care of formerly homeless seniors may have been intentionally set on fire, according to investigators. The tragedy killed at least 17 residents, and more are left injured or unaccounted for after the dormitory part of the wooden, tin-roofed structure burned to the…
Business is booming in the U.S. construction industry, as spending rolls towards a staggering $1 trillion volume in 2015. This will mark the best year for construction volume since 2007, prior to the beginning of the Great Recession. Last year at this time, the construction spending was less than impressive,…
Summer isn’t the only season about to start: the 2016 presidential campaign season has finally arrived. And in late May, Columba Bush, the former First Lady of Florida and wife of the Republican establishment front runner candidate Jeb Bush, joined social media for the first time. Columba was born in…
It’s a well known fact of life: giving birth is typically painful; very, very painful. Thanks to new technology, men are finding out just how painful it can be, and their cries of anguish are going viral. Virtually all women find that giving birth hurts to some extent. According to one study,…