Wednesday, April 24, 2013

If You Want To Know What is Happening In the U.S....

...don't bother with the American press.  Rely on the foreign press.

Like, for example, one of today's lead stories from El Pais, the Spanish daily.

El 30% de los latinos residentes en EE UU carece de seguro de salud, tres veces más que los blancos no hispanos y casi el doble que los afro-americanos. Tener una póliza de este tipo en Estados Unidos es un privilegio que no está al alcance de todos, tal y como reflejan los últimos datos de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de la Enfermedad (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Cerca del 30% de los ciudadanos y residentes de origen latino carecen de seguro médico, en comparación con el 11% de los blancos no hispanos y el 17% de los afro-americanos.

[Thirty per cent of Latinos living in the U.S. receive public health benefits, three times more often than non-Hispanic Whites and almost double that of African-Americans.  To have a benefit of this type in the United States is a privilege that is not available to all, according to the latest data from the CDC.  Approximately thirty per cent of citizens and residents of Latin origin receive medical benefits, in comparison to eleven per cent of non-Hispanic Whites and 17% of African-Americans].

There is a huge difference between a public welfare benefit going to 1 in 10 as opposed to nearly 1 in 3.  Especially when the 9 out of the 10 "non-Hispanic Whites" are footing the bill, both for their own children and the 1 out of 3 Latino children.

Last year, the U.S. Government adjudicated more than 10,000,000 immigrant visa applications, with the vast majority of those coming from Latin America.

2 comments:

  1. I already pay much closer attention to British news sources for information about the facts in the US.

    I wonder if El Pais has an English-Language edition online?

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  2. Here you goDances...El Pais in English. I'm adding it to my morning news crawl. :-)

    It seems almost everyone is on some kind of gov't help these days. The whole system is like a black hole; it sucks people in one "benefit" at a time. Although the stats regarding Latinos are troublesome (to say the least), the problem is systemic and ideological.

    It won't be, perhaps can't be, fixed anytime soon, IMHO.

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