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							<title>First Gen Students Struggle to Go Back to School Amid Ongoing Pandemic</title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2021 23:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[As I prepare for my return to campus, I've reflected on how this year of isolation went.]]></description>
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							<title>Did The Bond Between You &#038; Your Dog Grow During The Past Year? Check Out These Beautiful Stories!</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Sponsored by &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; This pandemic has been a trying time on all of us. With lockdown laws in place, most of us were unable to see friends and family, and only had our furry friends to turn to. Our dogs have always stood by our side giving us moments of laughter, companionship,]]></description>
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							<title>&#8216;Vaccine Tourists&#8217; from LATAM Are Traveling to U.S. to Get Vaccinated</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2021 19:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[While the United States is slowly but surely (for now) coming out of the pandemic, some countries in Latin America are continuing to see spikes in Covid cases and deaths. More than one million people in Latin America and the Caribbean have died from Covid-19 according to the Pan American Health Organization. They report that]]></description>
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							<title>Homeschooling During the Coronavirus Pandemic Has Changed Me as a Mom</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shayne Rodriguez Thompson]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2021 18:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[The past year has been intense for well, pretty much everyone around the world, but mothers, in particular, have taken on an outsized burden that has left us overwhelmed, frazzled, and absolutely exhausted. We&#8217;ve all been forced to make seemingly impossible decisions about how we would organize our family lives while we&#8217;ve spent the greater]]></description>
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							<title>5 Virtual Learning Struggles Affecting Latinx Families</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Virtual learning has been a challenge, to put it lightly, for many families across the nation. But the way it has affected Black and Latinx families is even greater still. I’ve witnessed it in my own household, from having to use often-confusing education apps, to the sheer exhaustion of staring at a screen for hours]]></description>
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							<title>18-Year Old Wilber Portillo Dies After Second Bout of COVID-19</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shayne Rodriguez Thompson]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[An 18-year-old Latino man from Denver, Colorado has died after enduring two bouts of the deadly virus COVID-19. Wilber Portillo reportedly contracted the novel coronavirus twice just a couple of weeks apart back in the fall, ultimately passing away on November 19 due to complications from the virus that has caused a global pandemic for]]></description>
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							<title>Americans Flee to Mexico to Escape Strict Quarantine</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[The quarantine in the U.S. remains intact and some Americans have decided to flee to Mexico to escape strict stay-at-home orders. The New York Times recently did a report exploring the influx of Americans looking to settle down in Mexico to return to some sense of &#8220;normalcy&#8221; despite the coronavirus pandemic worsening in Mexico. Though]]></description>
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							<title>15 Things You Need to Hear and Do Right Now</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2020 22:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[We are in the midst of unprecedented times. On one side, we are still trying to fight off coronavirus, in constant fear of a new surge come fall. On the other, we are still trying to fight off racism, risking our lives to stand up for what is right and just. Although we are doing]]></description>
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							<title>It&#8217;s Time for Every Latina To Prioritize Our Mental Health</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/latina-mental-health-coronavirus-quarantine/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Johanna Ferreira]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2020 21:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken up our worlds, infecting more than 2.9 million people around the globe and resulting in over 173,000 deaths, with numbers expected to climb. It has rattled financial markets and sunk local economies. More than 17 million Americans are now unemployed due to coronavirus. We’re living through a period filled with]]></description>
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