The Pew Hispanic Center reports that in the first quarter of this year, the unemployment rate for immigrant was 7.5%, compared to all Latinos at 6.5% and 4.7% for all non-Hispanics. Latinos make up 14.2% of the US labor force, of those, about half (52.5%) are immigrants.
The latest trends in the labor market represent a [...]
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In our need for a sense of control during uncertain times, we are deeply driven to keep a sense of identity - “who we are.” We cannot deny we describe ourselves in terms of the work we do along with the type of family relationships we currently are in: “I” am a Doctor, Lawyer, Teacher [...]
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I have eventually hit my one year mark of being unemployed. Since that year, it has ultimately hit me that the process of looking for a work can eventually make you feel under-educated, unqualified, skill-less, useless, and worthless. There is so much that you can do in a day pore over job sites looking for [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
Para Justicia y Libertad is a Latino-centered political blog focusing on the humanistic perspective of politics, history, and society as they relate to the Latina/o community throughout Texas and the United States.
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