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Aug 2024
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Latina women are helping drive the econo...

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Latinas’ contribution to the U.S. economy grew more than 50% between 2010 and 2021. In 2021, it totaled $1.3 trillion, new data shows. But despite their economic rise, Latina workers are still overrepresented in certain low-wage jobs. We’ll hear more. But first, Nvidia reported superb results, but that still disappointed some on Wall Street. And we’ll learn the latest developments in the arrest of Telegram’s Pavel Durov.

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