Centro News

• Misconceptions about Religion and Catholic Political InvolvementThis is the major finding from the book Blessing La Política: Latino Religious Experience and Political...
• Pathways to Economic Opportunity Policy ConferenceAbout one in three jobs in the U.S. are considered low wage. Workers in this sector experience higher rates of unemployment...
• Picturing Puerto Rico Under the American Flag: The Photographs of Louise Rosskam, 1937-1948More than 100 people attended the opening reception May 10 for the new Picturing Puerto Rico exhibit...
• Tribute to Edward González, Jr., Dr. Helen Rodríguez Trías, and Carlos GonzálezCentro is now putting a spotlight on this couple in a traveling exhibit, curated by senior archivist Pedro Juan Hernández...
• Socioeconomic Conditions for Puerto Ricans in Texas, 2010Puerto Ricans in Texas have fared better as far as jobs than Puerto Ricans in the United States as a whole...
• Video Conference on Teaching & Learning about Puerto Rican in the United States This conference will focus on the history of the Puerto Rican experience structured around seven posters produced by Centro...
• U.S. Data Reflect Poor Economic Conditions For Puerto Rican Living in New JerseyPuerto Ricans in New Jersey had significantly lower incomes, were overrepresented among the unemployed, underrepresented among high school and college graduates....
  
• Teaching and Learning about Stateside Puerto RicansThere were about 1,500 Puerto Ricans in the United States in 1910, and in just 100 years, the Puerto Rican population has grown to more than 4.7 million...