Vicente Zerna, a courier who until recently earned $650 a week, now parks his bicycle in front of a community center in Manhattan to pick up a small bag of free groceries. Zerna has been doing the same thing every day for three months. more>

NYC Coalition Against Hunger Executive Director Joel Berg hopes for increased food relief under the new administration.

Like the world's developing countries, poor communities [here] are faced with difficult choices about their futures and ask themselves what price they must pay for progress. Is a job more important than the quality of the air their children will have to breathe? more>

One of the glaring problems in our schools is the dropout crisis affecting students learning English. more>

Baldor Specialty Foods told Wady Medina, 36, who had worked there for two years as a truck driver, that he was fired when he returned from his vacation two weeks ago, saying that he had taken one more day than he was allowed. more>

A report issued by the Department of Homeland Security has many questioning the whereabouts of the citizens, young children, of the men and women who were deported in the last decade. more>

Undocumented immigrants are the first victims of the economic storm, in Europe as well as in the United States, and every deepening of the recession reduces their chances of survival. more>

Young female immigrants applying for a visa or a change in their immigration status must now pay $360 for a mandatory vaccine, against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). more>

Black History Month has been observed in the United States since 1926. There is a sub-group among the Black population which is uncertain whether or not the commemoration includes them as well: Black Latinos, or Afro-Latinos. more>

Thousands of stores on the verge of bankruptcy or in danger of losing their premises due to the exorbitant rise in rents. more>

There is great hope in this land that the inadequate immigration system will be corrected under the new administration, but up to this moment, it’s more of the same. more>

This trend has forced money transfer businesses to augment their services, creating departments to handle the money coming into the United States. more>

Besides leaving communities without local health care, 2,500 people would join the rolls of the unemployed... more>

After being let go from their respective jobs and faced with the impossibility of paying the rents for their rooms, these men, construction workers and gardeners, had been living in the streets for about three months. more>

Young men standing on street corners call out: “Girls, girls!” while they hand out cards with erotic pictures of women on them. These “card holders” ride bicycles or walk, and guide clients into the clandestine world of prostitution in Queens. more>

We are entering a new year, but some of the same unresolved issues remain in New York: open criminal investigations, dramatically diminished affordable housing, and workers’ rights in limbo. more>

Officials are pushing for toughening hate crime laws, but Latino Justice PRLDEF is going a step further. more>

Jose Sucuzhanay, a Brooklyn business owner, was with his brother Romel on Sunday when he was beaten by a group of men using a bat. He was reportedly declared brain dead yesterday. Romel had come from Ecuador to visit his brother, not bury him. more>

With seven new Latinas joining the 111th Congress, the author urges women’s advocates to seize the moment and get women’s issues onto center stage. more>

Calculations indicate that there are 200,000 U.S. Latinos living with the AIDS virus, and millions more who are indirectly affected by the disease. more>

It's a cold morning in November and José Mendoza stands at the corner of East Front and New Streets in Plainfield, New Jersey, looking for work. He hasn't had a job in three weeks. more>

When President Bush arrived at the White House in 2001, he told the nation that his policy to confront poverty would be that of a “compassionate conservative.” Although at first glance this idea can resonate with a large number of people, the ideology on which it is based has profound limitations. more>

A group of Manhattan small business owners yesterday denounced the fact that close to 80,000 of the city's Latino businesses find themselves in danger of having to close due to abusive practices by real estate speculators, which have driven the exaggerated rise in rental costs. more>

Four Democratic state senators, three of them Hispanic, have established an Independent Caucus to negotiate the future State Senate leadership and achieve a more equitable distribution of power. more>

Attacking immigrants is just not good politics. Some politicians learned this the hard way. In this election cycle, several politicians campaigned on anti-immigrant platforms—and lost. more>

When the Bloomberg administration wants to get something done, it makes it happen. In six months, a mayoral commission produced recommendations for reducing poverty. In a few weeks, Mayor Mike Bloomberg and the majority of the City Council pushed through legislation to extend term limits. But there’s a different story around the day labor commission. more>

Passport renewal forms requiring a parent’s signature present a bureaucratic hurdle that is preventing U.S. citizen minors from returning home. more>

Maybe it is the heat. Not everyone likes the heat. Maybe the U.S. government thinks that it is not important to us. Whatever the reason, it has been decided that U.S. citizens living in Puerto Rico cannot vote for the president of the country, the same country to which we belong. more>

Matilde Otero, 38, lost her job three days ago, and yesterday visited a New York City food bank on 116th Street in Manhattan so that her children, 13 and 7 years old, do not go without food. more>

Certainly the financial crisis is linked to Wall Street and the lack of regulation. Nevertheless, some now want to blame it on minorities and the undocumented. more>

There are 300,000 Latinos in the state of New York who are affiliated with unions. This is an impressive number, but it should not be a surprise to anyone. more>

Mothers and wives – immigrants who came to the United States in search of a better future for their families – now find themselves wearing an electronic ankle bracelet and facing the possibility of having to leave the country and return to a place they no longer recognize as their own. more>

Diabetes, depression, headaches and earaches are only a few of the symptoms endured every day by the people incarcerated in New Jersey's immigration jails, ailments for which it is difficult and often impossible to get medical attention. more>