Latino Families Suffering

It seems that studies done by The Pew Hispanic Center has come to the conclusion that Latino children are growing in poverty in high numbers in the city of Texas. A sociologist at the University of Houston said, "If 6 million kids are being brought up in poverty, that dosen't give them much hope for the future. They are likely to end up in poverty for the rest of their lives." This to me was shocking because the facts are that if a person is in poverty they have less opportunities to get ahead in life. They wont have the tools to be ahead in school. They will have to get low paying jobs to help the family and wont be able to persue a career for themselves. It is also true that hispanics tend to have large families where chances are they will always have high numbers in poverty. The article also states that Hispanics have a 11.1 percent unemployment rate compared with an overall rate of 9.1 percent. The article gives the facts on Latino families but the important thing in the article is that it states that education is the key to overcome. It is a hard road to go thru but it is possible. Most kids neglect school because no one at school motivates them. There parents are always working since most work two jobs to get the basics.  Both schools and parents need to help in this situations which is harder now since schools have had budget cuts and families have to keep changing jobs. www.chron.com/news

Corn sugar/ Corn syrup....

It seems that the Food and Drug Administration has cautioned the corn industry over its ongoing use of the term "corn sugar" to describe high fructose corn syrup. The Corn Refiners Association apperently want to use the term corn sugar instead of corn syrup to try and change the views of the product. It is well known that corn syrup is connected with diabetes, overweight people as well as other complications. Their attempt to change the name I believe wont change people from drinking it or not drinking it. If a person knows a soda is bad for you or anything that has high fructose corn syrup is bad they wont drink it. It's the persons choice to drink it or not. In a statement obtained by Barbara Schneeman it says, "We request that you re-examine your websites and modify statements that use the term `corn sugar' as a synonym for (high fructose corn syrup)," (Yahoo.com)finance.yahoo.com/news/AP-Exclusive-Official-slams-apf-2529890392.html?x=0 The main purpsoe of this story is to try and be on the same page and stop the confusion that society might have on these products. A soda is a soda and it is bad for you no matter what.

Ethier NO MORE!

It seems that Andre Ethier will not return to the Los Angeles Dodgers for the remainder of the season according to yahoo sports. The Dodgers out fielder who has been bothered by a knee problem has been shut down by manager Don Mattingly. Earlier this season Andre who had a 30 plus game hitting streak has become ice cold after the all star break and began to show his discomfort for the whole dodger financial problem. This a great opportunity for players such as Tony Gwynn Jr as well as Jerry Sands. As a true Dodger fan i say get rid of him!! I agree with 710 ESPN announcers on this one. I say "Do not give in to the drama just start off fresh". The Dodgers farm system has been able to produce a lot of players who have stepped up this season and shown what they can do. Plus everyone knows the Dodgers bad luck when it comes to signing these "kind" of players. They have a tendency to do poorly with us but go out and do great with other teams. Like I said just get rid of him. 

Arturo Pena

FOLLOW NEWS

Most of the news watched or listened to by people over the world have to do with crime, death, money or sports. In my opinion I am attracted to stories that have to do with sports. These kind of stories always prove how athletes are seemed to be more superior and paid more then doctors and lawyers. They play a sport for a living and make up to millions of dollars doing so. But with money comes trouble. There have been a handful of players who have been caught up with drug possesions or cheating scandels that make the news all the time. The only reason why they are news is because they represent such a large coorporation. Television shows as well as radio shows always are the ones that announce and discuss these types of news. They are entertaining at one point but are not really news. Some of the examples would be the Kobe Bryant incident, The Shaq incident, Delonte West incident involving Lebron James mother and so on. To me thats not really news but it comes with the player. What is important is what they do in the games when they play. The biggest member of the "big contract world" would be Larry Fitzgerald who is getting paid  $120 Million Dollar Contract From Arizona Cardinals for 8 years.