By Mary ShinnCronkite News A woman’s touch Characteristics of women-owned businesses in Arizona, according to a new survey: • Almost half were sole proprietorships • Median revenue in 2011 was $155,910 • Median number of employees was three • Median
DREAM Act activists and Hollywood filmmaker Davis Guggenheim are teaming up together through a contest being launched by the organization The Dream is Now to gain support for the undocumented youth. College and university students across the nation will have
By Vaughn Hillyard and Jessica GoldbergCronkite News WASHINGTON – Tribal leaders and Arizona advocates for abused women hailed the signing Thursday of the new Violence Against Women Act, which expands protections for same-sex partners, immigrants and Native American women. January
For 14 years, he was the Western Hemisphere’s most polarizing head of state. Generous while heavy-handed, charming but cold-blooded, Hugo Chávez Frías was adored by Venezuela’s proletariat while loathed by free market capitalists, center-right political rivals and many in the
Por Mariela Gomez de Ell Auto de formal prisión dictamino finalmente un juez de la ciudad de México Alejandro Caballero Vertiz para la ahora ex lideresa del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores por la Educación (SNTE), Elba Esther Gordillo, por lo
Brazilian security forces early Sunday morning performed an incident free operation allowing authorities to regain control over two “favelas,” shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro. The favelas formed part of the roadway corridor for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. For
By Lauren SariaCronkite News Mental Health First Aid: • Created in 2000 and conducted by Mental Health First Aid Australia, a national nonprofit health promotion charity. • Brought to U.S. by the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, the Maryland
By Connor RadnovichCronkite News WASHINGTON – Former Arizona Rep. Jim Kolbe joined representatives of business, church and civil-rights groups Thursday to file briefs supporting same-sex marriage in two upcoming Supreme Court cases on the issue. Kolbe, who married his partner
By Michelle PeiranoCronkite News Protecting Native women Provisions in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act that would affect Native American women include measures that would: • Give tribal courts jurisdiction over anyone who commits crimes of domestic or
By Taylor Pineda The Catholic Church is losing followers among the younger Hispanic 18-29 age crowd in the United States, according to a new Gallup Poll. Over the last five years the number of U.S. Hispanics identifying themselves as Catholics fell
