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We Decide: Latinos And The 2012 Election Premieres on nuvoTV on August 19 At 8:00PM (ET/PT)

8/17/2012

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Latinos living in the US need to be informed about political changes. They affect us in several ways, such as immigration, education and health among other aspects.

Following and understanding political campaigns can be difficult and Nuvotv is going to make it easier for us. We Decide: Latinos and the 2012 Election a TV show premiering on nuvoTV on Aug. 19 at 8PM (ET/PT) and presented by today show's Natalie Morales. She will serve as moderator for a panel of high-profile politic experts that will be answering questions from a live audience and also from people from social platforms such as twitter. The focus of the show is to inform the audience how the presidential candidates are addressing the issues that affect Latinos.
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The show will provide information about how the Presidential candidates will be handling the issues that Latinos are concerned about every day. The statistics show that Latinos have a higher rate of unemployment, poverty and we struggle with education.  How each candidate will handle the issues that concern us (Latinos) will dictate our future for the next 4 years.

It is not easy to make an educated choice, but as Latinos we need to think on how the president campaign will affect us. It is my opinion that regardless of how you like and choose, we need to think about the rest of the Latino population and the problems that we face every day. 

Issues affecting Latinos and other statistics: (source: Pew Hispanic Research)

Latino Poverty Rate (Greater increase than any other ethnic group)
2006 – 20.6%
2010 – 26.6%

Children Living in Poverty
African American – 4.4 million
White – 5.0 million
Latino – 6.1 million

No High School Diploma Adults 20 or older
White – 14%
Asian – 15%
African American – 23%
Latino – 41%

From personal experience going through the process of immigration it is not easy and having advocates helping our community is fundamental. We also need help understanding the meaning of the new health care reform and how things are still not on set stone and might change affecting our population drastically. 

Being informed and understanding the ideas of each candidate will make choosing the candidate to vote for. I think that having a TV show with experts can give us some clarification on all this issues. 

Latinos have a huge impact on the votes as shown on the Pew Hispanic Research 
2008 Presidential Election 
Eligible Whites who votes – 66%
Eligible African Americans who voted – 65%
Eligible Latinos who voted – 50%  

So let's make our voice be heard with an educated decision.

For more information follow We Decide on Facebook and other social media
We Decide: Speak up & Make a Difference:  http://bit.ly/PeSXhW 
We Decide Gives Latinos a Voice: http://bit.ly/Ne13F1 
Facebook: http://on.fb.me/Ne1AGO
Disclosure: I am writing this post in collaboration with Latina Bloggers Connect and nuvoTV and I am being compensated for it; however all opinion are my own.
1 Comment
Ray
4/27/2014 10:00:40 am

If Latinos are so dead set on changing America the why the hell can't they fix Mexico? How about if Mexico changes it's immigration policies to allow El Salvadorians to come into Mexico illegally and become citizens? Mexico is breaking up families when they catch and kill El Salvadorians who enter Mexico illegally but I don't hear you crying out about that. How about if Mexicans follow the laws of citizenship like everyone has to?

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