Latina women and youth disproportionately lack access to health care. California’s Latino community lacks access to basic health care and experience disproportionate health disparities. For example, 34% of California’s Latinos do not have health insurance, representing the highest rate of uninsured adults among the state’s racial and ethnic groups. Only 77.3% of Latinos have a [...]
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Latina Women Lack Access to Health Care
Posted in Health Care on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Women Most LIkely to Recieve Sub-Prime Lending Loans
Posted in Economic Empowerment on March 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Women are more likely to receive sub prime home mortgage than men and these higher rates of sub prime lending make it harder for households headed by women to build wealth through homeownership. In 2005, about a third of women took out mortgages with interest rates over 7.66% (well above the average prime mortgage rate [...]
