Despite the promises of “stimulus” spending, low interest rates, and the trillions of dollars added to our debt, the U.S. economy has barely improved and Hispanics are suffering because of it. Each month we’ll gather the latest unemployment facts and illustrate that not only is our status quo not working – it’s detrimental to the Hispanic community and the nation …

“Free the Wage” Report Released by The LIBRE Institute Today The LIBRE Institute announced the release of a new scholarly study titled Free the Wage: How the minimum wage hurts employment for Hispanics and low-skilled workers. This report uses data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to examine the effects of the minimum wage on Hispanic employment. It considers trends …

In recent years, the minimum wage has been a charged, polarizing, hot-button issue in American politics. It has also attracted significant attention in economic research, as advocates and opponents alike attempt to measure its effects on employment, prices, and poverty. The effect of the minimum wage on employment is especially significant, and it stands out in public polling on the …

Some things are easier to visualize than others. Visualizing the portion of our income that is taken in taxes, for example, is relatively straightforward. First the money was there, and then it went somewhere else. But what about money that was never there in the first place? As a result of the burden of overregulation, hundreds of billions of dollars …

In a nation where the general population is becoming less religious, the Hispanic faith community may play a pivotal role in deciding the role faith will play in maintaining these values of free speech and toleration, and in nurturing a healthy civil society.

Hispanic Heritage Month could hardly have come at a better time. It’s only September, and 2016 already seems to be one of the most divisive years in recent memory.

A pesar de las promesas de un gasto público para crear “estímulo” econímico, las bajas tasas de interés y los miles de millones de dólares anñadidos a la deuda, la economía de los Estados Unidos apenas ha mejorado y los hispanos están sufriendo a causa de ello. Cada mes recaudaremos los datos de desempleo más recientes y demostraremos no sólo …

Despite the promises of “stimulus” spending, low interest rates, and the trillions of dollars added to our debt, the U.S. economy has barely improved and Hispanics are suffering because of it.

This analysis of the Hispanic electorate in 2016 promotes a better understanding of the role that the Hispanic electorate can play in influencing elections and the direction of the nation both this year and in those to come.

That number has risen to 35 percent, now with an estimated 2.3 million Hispanic students attending either two or four-year colleges. Yet, with rising enrollment comes the burden of paying the rising cost of tuition, and for many Hispanics, this is beginning to put the American Dream out of reach.