• This month’s issue of Hispanic Business listed the "100 Fastest Growing Companies." The top three and their 2005/ 2009 revenue were:
  1. MicroTech LLC, Vienna, VA, $3.5 million/ $66 million
  2. C&I Engineering LLC, Richland, WA, $900,000/ $11 million
  3. Thos. S. Byrne Ltd., Forth Worth, TX, $15 million/ $175 million
• The same issue of Hispanic Business reported that U.S. Census Bureau data for 2007 showed 2.3 million Latino owned companies in the United States. Projected estimates by HispanTelligence put the actual number for 2010 at 2.6 million Latino owned firms.
• A study by U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) revealed that minorities represent 14.5 percent of Fortune 500 corporate boards. Women represent 18 percent. The survey done by Menendez as chair of the Senate Democratic Hispanic Task Force also found that Latinos only comprise 3.3 percent of board members. - Hispanic Marketing 101, August 10, 2010
• "Latino attitudes about the rise of women in the workforce are as positive as any group in America," according to a study of Hispanic attitudes about women and society. The study done by the Center for American Progress, in conjunction with A Woman’s Nation, the Rockefeller Foundation and Time also found the majority of Latinos favor a traditional family structure, but are less concerned than other groups about children growing up without a stay-at-home parent. - Hispanic Marketing 101, August 5, 2010
• "An estimated 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the United States in 2008 were the offspring of unauthorized immigrants, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center. Unauthorized immigrants comprise slightly more than 4 percent of the adult population of the U.S., but because they are relatively young and have high birthrates, their children make up a much larger share of both the newborn population (8 percent) and the child population (7 percent of those younger than age18) in this country." - Pew Hispanic Center, August 11, 2010
• "Mario G. Obledo, who slept on the floor with 12 siblings as the child of illegal immigrants and went on to become the founder and leader of major Hispanic-American organizations, a top state official in California and an acid critic of stereotypical treatment of Mexicans, died (August 18) in Sacramento. He was 78." - New York Times, August 21, 2010
• Vicente Fox, Mexico’s immediate past president, in his personal blog called for the legalization of narcotics in his country to "strike and break" the power of drug-trafficking cartels operating in Mexico. - Los Angeles Times, August 9, 2010