Latinas are playing a critical role in California's economy, increasingly because many Latinas are opening and running their own businesses.
Recently in Los Angeles, as part of our work with the California Economic Summit, we met with a group of Latina business and organizational leaders, each of whom had an interesting and unique story to tell.
Our friends at HOPE, a non-profit, non-partisan organization committed to ensuring policy and economic parity for Latinas through leadership, advocacy and education, organized the event. HOPE brought with them the Economic Status of Latinas Report to illustrate the importance of Latinas in the California economy.
The number of Latina-owned small businesses in California expanded rapidly from 2002 to 2007, generating $13 billion in sales receipts and employing more than 70,000 workers. READ MORE
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