Tag Archives: Desarrollo Económico
Latina Women: Health and Finances. Fatal Bullying. California Bans Toxic Pesticide.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14 PROGRAM # 8715 12:00 PM PT Latina Women: Health and Finances. Latina women entrepreneurs gather this week in a summit in Berkeley, CA to discuss plans towards developing cooperative businesses that benefit them, their families and their communities. Advancing the idea that women need to “cuddle” their finances, body, mind and spirit, […]
Google Mega-Campus and Housing Shortage.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 PROGRAM # 8703 12:00 PM PT Google Mega-Campus and Housing Shortage. Google is planning to build a new mega-campus in San Jose, in Silicon Valley. Community advocates are worried that the arrival of 20,000 tech employees will lead to huge rent hikes and a rise in the cost of living, and to […]
Landmark Gig Workers Law.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 PROGRAM # 8697 12:00 PM PT Landmark Gig Workers Law. Calling it a landmark legislation that will help reduce worker misclassification as independent contractors, rather than employees, California Gov. Newsom signed a gig workers bill into law. The measure will transform hundreds of thousands of independent contractors into employees with basic worker […]
Latino Shops and the Threat of Rising Rents.
MONDAY, JULY 22 PROGRAM # 8655 12:00 PM PT Latino Shops and the Threat of Rising Rents. The rising costs of rent and housing in the San Francisco bay area are threatening mom and pop businesses in the traditionally Latino Mission neighborhood. Those shops that haven’t relocated are at high risk of being pushed out. […]
Tackling the Growing Medical Bills. Also, Citizenship Question: Off the Census.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3 PROGRAM # 8642 12:00 PM PT Tackling the Growing Medical Bills. A national health care analyst discusses a bipartisan bill moving through the US Senate aimed at helping protect families who are suffering from rising health care costs and poor quality care. How are these problems of paying for health care and […]
Groundbreaking Protections for Farmworkers. Also, Coal Plants to Make a Comeback.
MONDAY, JUNE 24 PROGRAM # 8635 12:00 PM PT Groundbreaking Protections for Farmworkers. The New York Assembly and Senate passed farm labor bills that for the first time give farmworkers the right to unionize, collect overtime pay and unemployment benefits, and take at least one day off per week. Despite the opposition of the agricultural […]
Trump Hits Mexico with Tariffs on Imports. Also, Sponsors Leave Fresno Grizzlies Over Attack to Ocasio-Cortez.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 PROGRAM # 8622 12:00 PM PT Trump Hits Mexico with Tariffs on Imports. President Trump announced that, beginning June 10th, the US will impose a 5% tariff on all Mexican imports until Mexico cracks down on migrants trying to cross Mexico towards the United States. Mexico sent a high level delegation to […]
Latino Shops and the Threat of Rising Rents.
THURSDAY, MAY 16 PROGRAM # 8608 12:00 PM PT Latino Shops and the Threat of Rising Rents. The rising costs of rent and housing in the San Francisco bay area are threatening mom and pop businesses in the traditionally Latino Mission neighborhood. Those shops that haven’t relocated are at high risk of being pushed out. […]
May Day. Also, Venezuela: Failed Coup or Uprising?
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1 PROGRAM # 8597 12:00 PM PT May Day. May 1 has been declared a Day without Latinos in Wisconsin by immigrant- and labor-rights leaders, who are calling for no work, no school and no buying. Ten thousand are rallying on Madison’s Capitol and demand the legislature to restore driver licenses for immigrants, […]
Paid Leave for the US. Medical Aid-in-Dying Laws. March for Blue Cards.
THURSDAY, APRIL 25 PROGRAM # 8593 12:00 PM PT Paid Leave for the US. A former small business owner who was not able to benefit from California’s paid family leave policy after she gave birth and experienced postpartum depression joins this edition to comment on the issue. A US congressman is examining stories like hers […]
