Businesses suffer as hard-hit spend less or return to MexicoFebruary 13, 2009By Dick WoodburyFor the price of $25, with a rebate coupon, the digital TV converters looked like a good buy. But there were few takers. In fact, there were......

January 29, 2009By From Cenia Alvarado-Beltre and Patricia Pedraza Enter the "Devil's Cave" by pulling aside the wooden grate beneath the porch of the abandoned suburban New Jersey home. Crawl inside to see the filthy, mismatched blankets and the garbage and empty soda and alcohol bottles strewn abo...

Latino Exodus Hurting Mid-South Companies January 30, 2009By Amy Cowman One community getting hit especially hard by the tough economic times is the Hispanic population in Memphis and DeSoto County. Many of them rely on the construction industry which has drastically slowed down in recent months. A ...

January 28, 2009 Via PRNewswire Pizza Patron, the premier Latino pizza brand, rolled out its new AMIGO PIZZA(TM) in all of its restaurants nationwide. For the first time in the company's 22 year history, they are offering a 12-inch medium pizza as an alternative to their signature 15-inch X-Large pi...

January 24, 2009By VANESA D. SALINAS Up and down Jefferson Avenue, stores that sell quinceañera dresses, bouquets and accessories are reporting a steep drop in sales. Event organizers say the 15th-birthday celebrations – a traditional rite of passage for Hispanic daughters – are becoming increa...

January 25th 2009BY KARINA IOFFEE When Jesus Castellanos, a construction worker, became jobless in the fall of 2007, he knew he had to cut expenses - big time. So the 30-year-old moved in with two other men into a small room in a Jackson Heights home for $175 a month. if (typeof ord=='undefined') {o...

Jan. 23, 2009By MALCOLM GARCIA Guillermo Alvidrez stood inside the Westside CAN Center, clutching his cold hands beneath his chin to warm them. He had been outside hoping for someone to drive up and offer him some work, but, as in previous days, no one had. Around him, other day laborers huddled in ...

January 22, 2009by Jose Villa At last week's National Retail Federation Conference & Expo in New York City, Carl Steidtmann, chief economist of consumer business at Deloitte Research, made a powerful and somber presentation on the state of the U.S. consumer, which drives much of the advertising ...

January 19, 2009By Dave Fehling Despite all the grim news on the home-buying front, some Houstonians are still living that American Dream.  Sara Diaz is one of them. “This was perfect. I think I was lucky to find this house,â€� Diaz said. She just moved into a southeast Houston neighborhood, ...

January 12, 2009Source: Dallas Business Journal Latino pizza store brand Pizza Patron is faring well in the rocky economy. The Dallas-based pizza chain even saw its same-store sales, or stores open for more than a year, rise 3.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008. The company credits its growth o...