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Community Conversation: Local Resources for Small Businesses & Nonprofits
UPDATE: The formerly hybrid event will now be completely virtual and released on Facebook and YouTube on March 22 at 4:15PM EST. Mark your calendars for March 22—Community Conversation: Local Resources for Small Businesses & Nonprofits. CT Latino News is hosting the informational event in partnership with the CT Small Business Boost Fund on public financial and technical resources for small businesses and nonprofits across Connecticut. The virtual event will be available on Facebook @CT Latino News and YouTube @LatinoNewsNetwork2557. Small businesses and nonprofits across Connecticut continue to be disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, three years after its arrival. Although a few federal programs have been available to CT organizations, those in underserved communities typically have more difficulty accessing these services. In CT, Hispanics make up 15.6 percent of the state’s workforce but only nine percent owned businesses, according to a 2021 report by the US Small Business [...]
Common Ground on Key Issues Among Latino And Black Voters in Chicago Mayoral Race
Early Voting in all 50 Wards opened Monday and the Chicago mayoral election is now less than two weeks away. A new poll released today sheds light on which issues are top priority for Latino and Black voters, shaping their vote for the city’s next leader. The Chicago Mayoral Study was led by The Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy (CSDD) at Northwestern University and a coalition of local Latino and Black organizations, including Hispanic Federation, Illinois Black Advocacy Initiative, Latino Victory Project and the Latino Policy Forum. “I was heartened to see that the city of big shoulders embraces efforts to integrate migrants into the community. Seventy nine percent of all Chicago likely voters polled responded favorably to the question to “create a humane and orderly way to allow immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers to live and contribute to Chicago,” with 88 percent of Latinos, 78 [...]
Period Poverty Transcending Gender: The Call for An Inclusive Approach Towards Menstrual Equity
For many menstruators the cost of bleeding forces them to choose which essential need will be met that month. “It was that struggle of do I eat that day or do I buy sanitary products, what is my priority right now?” explained Vincent. Like others who experience period poverty, socks and wadded up toilet paper became regular alternatives to menstrual products that Vincent could not afford. At one point, he was living in his car, utilizing a gym membership to shower, and showering as often as he could when he was short on products. Not only was Vincent houseless and dealing with the stigma of identifying as a transgender man, but he was a transgender Latino man who menstruates, experiencing several layers of marginalization in addition to the shame associated with bleeding. And according to a study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty, LGBT-identifying people, [...]
Coping with cost of groceries, advice for stretching household budget
MERIDEN — Though the inflation rate dropped in December 2022 to 6.5 percent for things like appliances and gasoline, food prices are still up 11.8 percent compared to a year prior in the U.S., causing grocery prices to rise. “Money is tight,” said Demetria Armour of Meriden, who was recently doing her grocery shopping at C-Town Supermarkets at 160 Colony St. “I mean, everybody seemed like they were struggling,” she said. “And it's just not good out here. You know, you work and you still don't have nothing. And it's really sad and only God is able to make it better.” Read the full story by the Record-Journal’s Latino Communities Lab at: https://www.myrecordjournal.com/News/Meriden/Meriden-News/Meriden-shoppers-react-to-the-increase-of-grocery-store-prices.html Publisher’s Note: CTLatinoNews partners with the Latino Communities Reporting Lab in best serving the Hispanic-Latino communities of Connecticut.
Community Conversation: What is Period Poverty? — Recap and Resource Guide
An estimated 300 million people menstruate around the world on any given day. Still, the stigma surrounding this normal bodily function contributes to the cycle of period poverty that leads many without the products and/or knowledge they need to maintain a healthy period.Illinois Latino News and WBEZ Chicago collaborated on the January 31 virtual event Community Conversation: What is Period Poverty? to explore this issue. Beyond defining period poverty, the event strived to illustrate its effects with video interviews featuring first-hand accounts and expert panelists at both the local and national level. Responses from the Addressing Period Poverty survey shaped the content of this conversation, by catering to the information respondents said they wanted to know.Panelists included: Abigail Suleman, Co-founder of Blood Buds and MPH student at UIC Ida Melbye, Executive director of the Period Collective Damaris Pereda, National programs director, PERIOD. Dr. Sameena Rahman, Obstetrics and gynecology specialist [...]
Voters will choose District Council to improve public safety and police accountability
IL Latino News produces stories focused on the responses to the social determinants of health and democracy. 120 candidates filed petitions for Chicago’s newly-created District Council positions on Nov. 28, a few months ahead of the February 2023 municipal elections. City voters will be able to elect three members in their police district for the first time, along with the next mayor, city clerk, city treasurer, and alderpeople. These positions form part of a new system for police oversight, accountability, and public safety in the city. Called Empowering Communities for Public Safety (ECPS), this coalition encourages community engagement and input to hold police accountable and create safe neighborhoods. ECPS now oversees the Chicago Police Department (CPD), the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA), and the Police Board. “We believe that it’s necessary for the community to have not just a voice, but a decisive voice in what happens in their communities around policing and [...]
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