Government Information

https://governor.virginia.gov/policy/executive-orders/eo-20-advancing-equity-for-small-women-and-minority-owned-businesses/

Orders state agencies to exceed a goal of 42% in expenditures spent with small and minority-owned businesses in the state and to create a micro business designation for employers with no more than 25 employees.  From the Office of the Governor

http://csgjusticecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/The_School_Discipline_Consensus_Report.pdf

Subtitled: Strategies from the Field to Keep Students Engaged in School and Out of the Juvenile Justice System.  Calls for improved methods of school discipline that keep students engaged in classrooms and less use of suspensions. Criticizes the disproportionate number of disciplined students of color, those with disabilities, and youth who identify as gay, bisexual, lesbian or transgender.  From the Council of State Governments Justice Center

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2014/article/job-characteristics-among-working-parents-1.htm

Reveals that foreign-born, Hispanic, and Black working parents are significantly more likely than U.S. born, White or Asian working parents to have a low wage job without health insurance or a pension plan.  From the Bureau of Labor Statistics

http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0102/twps0102.pdf

Evaluates how Hispanics reported their race on the 2010 Census.  A working paper of the Census Bureau.

http://www.census.gov/did/www/sahie/data/2012/2012highlights.pdf

Provides estimates of the population without health insurance coverage by demographic and income-to-poverty characteristics.  From the Census Bureau

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/27/presidential-memorandum-creating-and-expanding-ladders-opportunity-boys-

Describes presidential initiative to improve opportunities for youth of color by tracking indicators of life outcomes on a website, developing federal proposals that will enhance positive outcomes, and creating a public portal to disseminate successful programs and practices.  From the White House

http://www.cscc.unc.edu/hchs/

Long term study which describes the prevalence of cardiovascular/pulmonary and other select chronic diseases in the Hispanic community.  Also covers the role of sociocultural factors.  From the National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

http://www.dol.gov/wb/media/reports/WB_WomenColorFactSheet.pdf

Provides information on Black, Hispanic, and Asian working women especially with regard to income, employment, educational attainment, poverty, and the gender wage gap.   From the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor