Enacting health care reform, boosting minimum wage and job employment programs, and passing comprehensive immigration reform would go a long way to ensuring Latino economic recovery.

Nearly 60 farmworkers from a rural Washington state community just outside of Seattle said they were stranded with no way to get home last week after refusing to work for less than minimum wage.

When it comes to the low-skilled labor market, it's been immigrant and minority workers who have served as the backbone in those industries. Yet, there was a time when a low-wage job was considered to be a stepping stone to better paying jobs on the way to achieving the proverbial American Dream.