Tag: Hispanics

In this Tuesday, July 3, 2012 photo, inmates walk in the yard in front of a cellblock at the maximum-security Mount Olive Correctional Center in Mount Olive, W.Va. In southern West Virginia, they often go to the coal mines. In the northern counties, they go to the oil and gas industry. But everywhere, corrections officers are fleeing the state's regional jails and prisons for better-paying jobs. With the 49th-lowest starting salary in the nation, it's no surprise.

Beltway Confidential

Latinos especially should support Trump and the GOP on this issue

Israel Ortega · June 11, 2018 5:44 pm

Steve Bannon: Martin Luther King ‘would be proud’ of Trump

Katie Leach · May 24, 2018 1:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with law enforcement officials about the MS-13 street gang and border security, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018, in Washington.

Virginia murder tied to MS-13 will be focus of Trump’s Long Island immigration roundtable

Anna Giaritelli · May 23, 2018 4:23 pm

Philoria Richemond of Miami waits in an auditorium for her number to be called at a jobs fair hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus in Miami, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. The fair is aimed at lowering the especially high rate of unemployment in the black community.

Black, Hispanic unemployment rates hit record lows in April

Joseph Lawler · May 4, 2018 12:57 pm

Beltway Confidential

No, an Alabama Republican didn’t mock a Puerto Rican woman’s accent at a hearing

Becket Adams · March 22, 2018 9:14 pm

Just 6.9 percent of black adults were unemployed in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Black unemployment falls to second-lowest level on record in February

Joseph Lawler · March 9, 2018 1:52 pm

El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar handily beat out five other Democrats in her primary Tuesday night, while in the 29th Congressional District of Texas, state Sen. Sylvia Garcia of Houston defeated six other Democrats in her primary. (AP Images)

Texas is one step closer to electing its first two Latinas to Congress

Laura Barrón-López · March 8, 2018 3:15 am

Blue Texas? It’s Way More Complicated Than You Think.

David Byler · February 21, 2018 9:42 am

In this Monday, July 6, 2015 photo, an American flag is joined by flags from Mexico and El Salvador adorning a fence along Powell Boulevard in East Portland, Ore.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Washington Secrets

USA, USA: Hispanics are the most ‘proud’ of America

Paul Bedard · February 12, 2018 2:25 pm

Gentry liberals have the microphone and the money to dominate the Democratic Party. Whether they can overcome their snobbish disdain and bitter contempt for those beyond their comfortable enclaves, and come up with a winning national strategy, is unclear. (iStock by Getty Images)

Michael Barone: Gentry liberals own the Democratic Party

Michael Barone · February 8, 2018 5:01 am

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., took a jab at President Trump on Monday for saying that because Democratic lawmakers didn't applaud his State of the Union they were "treasonous." (Michael Reynolds/Pool via Bloomberg)

Jeff Flake chides Trump for saying Dems who did not applaud during State of the Union were ‘un-American,’ ‘treasonous’

Diana Stancy Correll · February 6, 2018 12:50 am

President Trump speaks on tax policy during a visit to Sheffer Corporation in Blue Ash, Ohio. Trump recalled the silence from Democrats in Congress during the State of the Union when he praised low unemployment among African-Americans and Hispanics. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump: Democrats ‘un-American,’ ‘treasonous’ for not applauding State of the Union speech

Steven Nelson · February 5, 2018 8:17 pm