READING, Pa. – Leaders from Reading, Allentown, and Lancaster came together in Reading for the first annual 222 Corridor Latino Economic Summit at the DoubleTree Hotel.<\/p>\n
The event highlighted and discussed the growing economic influence of the Latino community in a majority of areas within the region.<\/p>\n
Participants and attendees included several key figures, including Allentown’s mayor, who talked about the importance of collaboration across the region.<\/p>\n
“It’s about identifying some of the challenges, identifying also the opportunities, and really building on what makes us a very strong and contributing community,\u201d said Pa. Rep. Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz.<\/p>\n
The event continues on Saturday with the Berks Latino Chamber of Commerce’s annual gala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Leaders from Reading, Allentown, and Lancaster came together in Reading for the first annual 222…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-303500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}