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First Latina princess is coming to Disney television

By Marina Lopes

Princess Elena will be introduced in a special episode of a Disney Junior’s series in 2016. By the end of the year she will have her own animated series.

First-time health care enrollees often don’t understand how coverage works

By Marissa Evans, Kaiser Health News

Even after signing up for insurance through the Affordable Care Act, advocates find that explaining to clients that they will still have to pay out of their own pockets each time they go to the doctor or get lab tests…

Koch-funded initiatives reach out to Hispanic voters for the GOP

By Will Weissert, Philip Elliott, Associated Press

The billionaire industrialists are working to patch a gaping hole in the GOP coalition that could spell a generation of irrelevance if Republicans cannot build some credibility with Hispanic voters, who typically shun the GOP. The fast-growing group could have…

Post-recession economy leaving many blacks behind, Urban League reports

By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press

While unemployment has been a major impediment to African-Americans' economic progress, underemployment is a bigger obstacle for them than it is for whites or Hispanics, the National Urban League says in its latest State of Black America report.

Uninsured rate drops due to health care law, but signups lag among Hispanics

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press

The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index finds that 15.9 percent of U.S. adults are uninsured thus far in 2014, down from 17.1 percent for the last three months of 2013.