I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Six-in-ten Hispanic adults in the U.S. who are neither citizens nor legal permanent residents are without health insurance, the Pew Hispanic Center reports. But an estimated 28 percent of Hispanic adults who are citizens or legal permanent residents don’t have health insurance either. That’s compared with 17 percent of the overall U.S. adult population who lack health insurance.
According to the report, “Hispanics, Health Insurance and Health Care Access,” undocumented immigrants make up about one quarter of the Latino population in the U.S. But they are generally younger and healthier than the U.S. population as a whole:
Among adult Latinos who are neither citizens nor legal permanent residents, just over one-third (34 percent) report that they either missed work, or spent at least half a day in bed over the past year, due to illness or injury. The rate rises to 42 percent among adult Latinos who are citizens or legal permanent residents and to 52 percent among the U.S. adult population.
The figures in the report are based on a new analysis of a survey of 4,013 Latino adults conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation from July 16, 2007 to September 23, 2007.
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