{"id":116368,"date":"2014-11-20T23:55:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T06:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/latinos-see-their-finances-improving\/"},"modified":"2014-11-20T23:55:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T06:55:06","slug":"latinos-see-their-finances-improving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/latinos-see-their-finances-improving\/","title":{"rendered":"Latinos see their finances improving"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cb441542-3fed-4657-8191-28a02aebdcb8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cb441542-3fed-4657-8191-28a02aebdcb8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cb441542-3fed-4657-8191-28a02aebdcb8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cb441542-3fed-4657-8191-28a02aebdcb8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1361\" height=\"1046\" alt=\"A new survey shows the majority of Hispanic-Americans have a sense of optimism about their finances, but also believe racism and crime are getting worse.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A new survey shows the majority of Hispanic-Americans have a sense of optimism about their finances, but also believe racism and crime are getting worse.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo courtesy of U.S. Dept. of Agriculture<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sylvia Manzano is principal with Latino Decisions, the firm that conducted the survey, entitled \u201cThe State of the Latino Family 2014.\u201d She says 1 in 2 people reported their personal finances have improved in the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though more than half of Hispanics earn less than $40,000 a year, we still see a very bright and forward-looking sort of attitude,\u201d Manzano said.<\/p>\n<p>The poll, according to Manzano, shows 3 out of 4 Hispanic-Americans described themselves as \u201coptimistic\u201d or \u201cvery optimistic\u201d about the future of their finances. She adds a majority feels access to affordable health care, education and equal opportunity has improved in the past five years. However, a majority also said racism toward Hispanics, crime and violence, and affordable housing all have gotten worse.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalo Palza, executive director at Centro de la Familia de Utah, says a lack of education seems to be at the root of racism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery strong patriotic feelings,\u201d says Palza. \u201cTo the point of being bunker-minded with immigrants, and especially at the border, is to me a reflection of poor education and being very poorly informed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Palza says greater efforts to educate people about immigrants, and others who are not like them, may help to diminish racist views. According to the survey, a large majority, 84 percent, believe police are there to protect them and their family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey shows the majority of Hispanic-Americans have a sense of optimism about their finances, but also believe racism and crime are getting worse.Photo courtesy of U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Sylvia Manzano is principal with Latino Decisions, the firm that conducted the survey, entitled \u201cThe State of the Latino Family 2014.\u201d She says 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-116368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116368"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=116368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}