A Conversation with Arne Duncan – Secretary of Education Arne Duncan just resigned and will step down from the position before the end of the year. Duncan celebrates Latino Heritage Month, affirming that Latinos are graduating from high school in record numbers and the dropout rate was cut in half in the last fifteen years. Radio Bilingüe’s news director Samuel Orozco spoke with the secretary about some of the biggest challenges ahead for Latino education.
Voices from the Democratic Debate – The day after the Democratic presidential candidates’ first debate in Las Vegas, Latino representatives of three big campaigns, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley, joined Radio Bilingüe’s national show Línea Abierta to comment on some of the points brought up in the debate which sparked heated discussion.
California Workers Celebrate Historic Wage Theft Law – After more than five years of protests and visits to the state capitol, California’s Governor Brown signed a new law that adds protections against wage theft. Despite already existing laws that punish the crime, employers in the state are estimated to steal more than 1,200 million dollars every year from workers, by not paying them minimum wage, overtime, or obligatory breaks. Workers and community leaders celebrated the triumph alongside State Senate President Kevin De León, in Los Angeles, named the country’s capital of wage theft. Rubén Tapia reports.
