Thread: Latino Unemployment Rate Sees Big Drop

Latino Unemployment Rate Sees Big Drop
By Bryan Llenas
Published February 04, 2011

Unemployment is on the rise for Hispanics. U.S. Department of Labor announced Friday that joblessness jumped to 13.2 percent in November.

The unemployment rate among Hispanics has decreased to 11.9 percent, down from 13.2 percent in November --a 1.3 percent positive change according to the Department of Labor-- marking the largest positive change among all groups in the month of January.

November marked the highest unemployment rate among Hispanics since 1983 when it was 14.3 percent.

Nationally, 36,000 jobs were created as the unemployment rate fell only by 0.4 percentage point to 9.0 percent for the month.

Since November, the unemployment rates among Whites fell .8 percentage point from 8.8 percent to 8.0 percent and Blacks saw a .3 percentage point decline from 16 percent to 15.7 percent.

According to the EPI, Economic Policy Institute, few believe that the unemployment rate will dip below 6 percent before 2014, the latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office predict the unemployment rate might dip to just above 7 percent in that year.

The EPI report also predicts that the unemployment rate through 2012 among blacks will remain over 15 percent and among Hispanics it will still be around 11 percent.

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what about unemployment among:

Chinese, Koreans, Arabs, Russians, Vietnamese, Nigerians, Indonesians, Scandinavians, Indians, Italians, Easter Europeans, Francophones, etc?

Hispanics/Latinos is NOT a race and why on earth are they treated as special class of people with their own special "race" label? How does that make sense?

It is time to stop this Hispanic/Latino special treatment and demand from our politician to stop this and demand that the census bureau stop that as well! This is insane

Thoughts?

Well when was the last time you saw any of those racial groups flying flags from their home country, flying the US flag upside down, and calling Americans racist bigots. I guess with the current admin that all needs to happen first.

This is also why though many of those countries are more desirable. Though actually hold dear their chance in the US and are in majority thankful for the oppurtunity vs demanding they get more and they deserve more.