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Chamber Breakfast Mixer
Wed, Feb. 24, from 7:30 – 9:00 am
WSSC – Presentation about Water Rates
and Aging Infrastructure
at Warner Memorial Presbyterian Church
10123 Conn. Ave, Kensington, MD 20895
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» MIKULSKI CELEBRATES $500,000 IN FEDERAL FUNDS FOR LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) today announced the Maryland Multicultural Youth Center has received $500,000 in fiscal year 2009 federal funds from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Senator Mikulski is Chairwoman of the Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) Appropriations Subcommittee, which funds the Department of Justice.
» GOVERNOR’S COMMISSION ON HISPANIC AFFAIRS
2007 ANNUAL REPORT.
Mission Statement: The Governor’s Commission on Hispanic Affairs will advise government, advance solutions, and serve as a resource to ensure the economic, educational, health, political and social well-being of Hispanics.
Vision:he Commission envisions an active and productive Hispanic community united and empowered to reach its full potential.
» Minority Business Enterprise
Maryland is home to one of the largest and most robust communities of small, women and minority-owned businesses in the nation. These firms represent the base for Maryland’s middle class and help sustain our economy to a level unmatched anywhere else in the Country.
Together we have made real and steady progress to protect our middle class, and to expand opportunities for all Marylanders, including small, women and minority-owned businesses. In partnership with our Executive Cabinet, the Maryland General Assembly, minority business advocates and other stakeholders, we are making the Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) Program work for you.
» Mikulski praises nomination of Thomas Perez to be assistant attorney general for doj’s civil rights division
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD) today praised the nomination of Thomas E. Perez to be the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice. Perez currently serves as the Secretary of Labor, Licensing & Regulation for the State of Maryland.
Senator Mikulski, together with former U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.), provided formal introductions for Perez at today’s nomination hearing. U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.), a member of the Judiciary Committee, presided over the hearing
» Theresa Daytner to Receive SBA Honor
The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Baltimore District Office is pleased to announce that Ms. Theresa Daytner of The Daytner Corporation in Mt. Airy, Md. has been selected as the 2009 Maryland Women in Business Champion of the Year.
The selection for this award was based on several criteria, including: efforts to increase business and financial opportunities for women; volunteer efforts to strengthen the role of women business owners within the community; and advocacy of the women-owned business community, as a whole.
» CONEXIONES of Howard County
Maryland is an organization devoted to fostering academic excellence and civic responsibility among Hispanic students throughout Howard County. As the only Non Profit Hispanic Student Organization in Howard County dedicated to meeting the educational needs of Hispanic students at all levels, CONEXIONES has helped initiate programs that provide assistance, support and encouragement to students in completing high school, considering higher education opportunities, and making successful career choices. Every year, CONEXIONES celebrates the accomplishments of our graduating Howard County Hispanic High School seniors. This year’s 8th Annual Awards Ceremony will take place on May 20, 2009 at Long Reach High School in Columbia, Maryland. This unique event serves to provide scholarships to select Hispanic High School seniors through a competitive application process, motivate Hispanic Students, and raise community awareness on the achievements of Hispanic students. To join our mailing list, make a charitable tax-deductible contribution, or to learn how you can help, please visit our CONEXIONES website at www.conexioneshc.org
»Lawmakers approve illegal immigrant license ban
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Map, News) – Illegal immigrants will no longer be able to hold Maryland licenses as of July 1, 2015, under legislation approved shortly before the state legislature adjourned its 2009 session.
Legislators have wrestled all session with how to end Maryland’s status as the only state east of the Rocky Mountains that issues licenses to illegal immigrants, with many worried the state had become a magnet for fraud.
The House of Delegates had approved a bill that would allow illegal immigrants who already have licenses to renew them and receive a separate, distinct ID, that could not be used to board planes or enter federal buildings. But the Senate wanted to deny driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants altogether.
A conference committee charged with finding a compromise agreed that illegal immigrants who already have Maryland ID will be able to renew their license and receive an ID that couldn’t be used to board planes or enter federal buildings, but those license renewals would all expire by July 1, 2015.
» Spanish Versions of Partnership Material
» GCHA Annual Report and Other Resources
Hispanic Annual report 2007 for Web ( DOWNLOAD PDF )
MIKULSKI TARGETS FUNDING FOR RESEARCH ON ALZHEIMER’S IN THE HISPANIC
COMMUNITY
Teams up to introduce legislation expanding clinical standards and outreach
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Noting that 5.2 million Americans are currently suffering
from Alzheimer’s disease, Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) today announced she
and Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) have introduced the Cure and
Understanding through Research for Alzheimer’s (La CURA) Act of 2008
(S.3092). This important legislation will help ensure that the National
Institute of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) have the tools they need to conduct adequate Alzheimer’s research,
outreach and education. The debilitating disease costs the United States
$148 billion each year in direct and indirect costs to businesses, Medicare
and Medicaid.
More information English & Spanish (DOC)
Hispanic Business & Trade Alliance letter to support the Colombian FTA
Hispanics Key to Clinton Victories in Nation’s Two Biggest States (Mar 7, 2008)
Sen. Hillary Clinton would not have won primaries in the nation’s two largest states—California and Texas—if Latinos had not turned out in such large numbers and if they had not voted so heavily in her favor, according to an analysis of exit polling data. She also would not have carried a third state—New Mexico—without strong Latino support. In all three states, Latinos accounted for at least 30% of the total votes cast in the Democratic primary, and Clinton outpolled Sen. Barack Obama among Latinos by a ratio of about two-to-one.
Download Fact Sheet (PDF Format)
Hispanics in the 2008 Election: Maryland (Feb 8, 2008)
Maryland’s Hispanic population is the 20th largest in the nation. More than 341,000 Hispanics reside in Maryland, 1% of all Hispanics in the United States. There are 112,000 eligible Hispanic voters in Maryland, less than 1% of all U.S. Hispanic eligible voters. This fact sheet provides key demographic information on Latino eligible voters. It also contains data on other major groups of eligible voters in Maryland, with comparative data for the U.S. All data are from the Census Bureau’s 2006 American Community Survey.
Download Fact Sheet (PDF Format)
The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of U.S. Public Schools (Aug 30, 2007)
The recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions on school desegregation have focused public attention on the degree of racial and ethnic integration in the nation’s public schools. A new analysis of public school data finds that since 1993-94 white students have become less isolated from minority students while, at the same time, black and Hispanic students have become slightly more isolated from white students. These two seemingly contradictory trends stem mainly from the same powerful demographic shift: an increase of more than 55% in the Hispanic slice of the public school population since 1993-94.
In Maryland, which experienced the largest increase in Hispanic students’ isolation from white students of any state over the 12-year period, 21% of Hispanic students were educated in nearly all-minority public schools in 2005-06, compared with 7% in 1993-94.
