Two nonprofit groups serving the Hispanic and immigrant communities north of Boston are merging to jointly provide education, health, and job-training programs, The Boston Globe reports.

Centro Latino de Chelsea and Concilio Hispano have formed partnerships in the past but began talking last year about a permanent union, said Juan Vega, chief executive of the new Centro Latino. “We’ve got the economy, we’ve got this huge growth of Latinos and immigrants in general. It only gets you so far, being a smaller organization,” Mr. Vega said.

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