La Prensa San Diego

Commentary: By Jerome Stocks    We hear a lot these days about the need for “shovel ready jobs” and the lack of them, as well as the “do nothing Congress”. For those who want answers, not excuses, let’s visit some of the places where job preventers work.    First stop: The home of the President [...]

Analysis Story and Photos By David Bacon     Last week President Obama broke his campaign commitment and put three free trade agreements up for a vote in Congress (on Wednesday both houses passed the agreements. President Obama will soon sign the Free Trade Pacts into law ). Business interests, ecstatic at the prospect, promise they’ll [...]

 Analysis By Isaiah J. Poole New America Media WASHINGTON—President Obama said on Monday that his proposal would bring taxes for millionaires in line with those paid by the middle class. This “is not class warfare; it’s math,” he stated. But he could have easily been referring to math that hasn’t favored working-class and middle-class households [...]

 Frontera NorteSur     A slew of press reports offers glimpses at a few of the trends that have transformed the Mexican economy during the past decade, a time when the future of the national petroleum industry saw the writing on the wall and the factory employment boom promised by the North American Free Trade Agreement [...]

By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur Editor’s Note: Continuing with the New Mexico Centennial series, today’s article is the second of two pieces on the history of Vado-Del Cerrro in the rural Mesilla Valley south of Las Cruces. This article was made possible in part by support from the New Mexico Centennial Project, New Mexico Department [...]

Por Pablo Jaime Sáinz     Una nueva organización sin fines de lucro tratará de ayudar a los empresarios de origen mexicano a desarrollar, hacer crecer o establecer sus empresas en el Condado de San Diego –en español.     La misión principal de la Cámara de Negocios México-Americana (CaNeMexA)”es promover y apoyar a sus miembros al [...]

Legislators Should Focus on Helping Those in Need as They Tackle the Deficit Commentary: By Jasmin Jones     This past Sunday marked the 48th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, ending a week in which he was honored by the opening of a memorial display on the National Mall. [...]

    San Diego’s general contractors were awarded nearly $18.2 million (91 percent) in Proposition S construction contracts this year. In addition to encouraging local general contractors to bid on its projects, San Diego Unified School District is dedicated to providing opportunities for small emerging businesses enterprise (EBE) firms.     San Diego Unified has expanded its [...]

Expo Mexico Emprende comes to Los Angeles seeking to capitalize remittances     For the first time in its history, the Mexican government and 16 state governments will present an Expo designed to offer assistance to Mexicans living outside of Mexico with the necessary tools to capitalize their remittances. The Expo will focus on starting and [...]

    In a renewed bid to further position their localities in a booming 21st century industry, officials in Tijuana and Baja California will host an aerospace conference later this month.     Jacobo Ackerman Garcia, local delegate for Mexico’s Economy Ministry, said the goal of the July 21-22 event at Tijuana’s international airport is to provide a [...]

Commentary: By Christian E. Weller     Latino families, like African-American and white families, eagerly await a recovery in the U.S. housing market. Their economic security desperately depends on such a recovery, yet the housing market could face another crisis if Republicans in Congress get their way and the federal debt ceiling—the amount that the federal [...]

By Viji Sundaram New America Media     California could lose as many as 28,440 more jobs, and up to $3.7 billion in related revenue, if federal budget cuts to Medicaid proposed by U.S. Congressman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., were enacted, according to a new report released Wednesday by the nonprofit health-advocacy group, Families USA.     The [...]

Nielsen provides a reflection of diversity By Monica Gil SVP Public Affairs at The Nielsen Company    The glorious celebration of Cinco de Mayo is just around the corner, eagerly anticipated in cities and communities throughout the country. America is a wondrous tapestry of many colorful threads, it is important to acknowledge everything that makes [...]

Por Mark R. Day     La cooperativa de trabajadores de propiedad, un modelo económico que ha funcionado desde hace décadas está haciendo una reaparición. En algunas partes de EE.UU. las co-operativas están ayudando a reducir el desempleo y la nueva vida a las comunidades apagadas por falta  de puestos de trabajo.     No  hemos encontrado [...]

By Mark R. Day     The worker-owned cooperative, an economic workplace model that has been around for decades is making a comeback. In some parts of the U.S. new coops are sprouting up, cutting unemployment rates and revitalizing economically depressed communities.      You won’t find too many in conservative Southern California. But in the San [...]

Commentary: By Robert Cruickshank    Jerry Brown’s proposal to take property tax revenues from the redevelopment agencies and give it to schools and local governments is generating a lot of controversy – and a lot of discussion. One of the more enlightening articles about it was Monday’s column by Dan Walters (published at California Progressive [...]

By Patrick Osio             For as long as can be remembered, San Diego County was home to a Western-European descendant population that politically and economically controlled the region. The other ethnic and racial group minorities were tolerated, as long as they were passive in their demands and submissive to the will of the majority.             [...]