Browsing Latino Jobs Report by Issue Date
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Monthly Latino Employment Report: Labor Day 2011
(2011-09-02)This Labor Day issue of the Monthly Latino Employment Report reviews how the Latino workforce is vital to several major industries that have added jobs in recent months. Overshadowing this progress, however, is the prevalence ... -
Monthly Latino Employment Report: Latinos and the Jobs of the Not-So-Distant Future
(2012-04-06)This brief report makes the case for immediate public investment in adult education and training to improve the employment prospects for Latinos in a changing labor market. -
Monthly Latino Employment Report: Celebrating the Latino Workforce
(2012-09-07)In honor of Labor Day, this month's report highlights the best of the Monthly Latino Employment Report series and voices of individuals from the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) network who shared their stories with us. -
Monthly Latino Employment Report: Underemployment: The Real Jobs Crisis
(2012-12-07)Although the national unemployment rate held steady at 8% at the end of 2012, it masked the full picture of the nation's jobs crisis. Millions of Americans continue to be underemployed, a term used to describe people who ... -
Monthly Latino Employment Report: Current and Aspiring Young Hispanic Workers
(2013-05-03)Latinos are among the fastest-growing minority groups and a population characterized by its youthfulness making them an increasingly important segment of the U.S. economy. Yet unemployment among young workers ages 16 to ... -
Monthly Latino Employment Report: Financial Access among Unemployed Latinos
(NCLR, 2013-06-07)This Monthly Latino Employment Report provides the latest Latino employment statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor plus highlights from Latino Financial Access and Inclusion in California. -
Monthly Latino Employment Report: Hispanic Home Care Workers
(NCLR, 2013-07-08)This report describes the characteristics of home care workers and overdue regulatory reforms that would improve wages and quality of care in this vital industry. -
Monthly Latino Employment Report: Latino Labor Force Growth
(2013-10-22)By the year 2050, one in three workers in the U.S. will be Latino. The demographic makeup of the workforce of the future is already evident in certain segments of today's economy. This Monthly Latino Employment Report ... -
Monthly Latino Employment Report: The Federal Minimum Wage
(2014-01-10)Given recent momentum and local victories around the minimum wage, this month's Monthly Latino Employment Report revisits the need to raise the federal minimum wage. Latinos would benefit disproportionately from an increase ... -
Job Gains in Key Industries Hold Latino Unemployment Rate at 8.4%: Monthly Latino Employment Report
(2014-02-07)Job growth in January, while low, was concentrated in several industries that disproportionately employ Latino workers. -
Monthly Latino Employment Report: April 2014
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Monthly Latino Employment Report: Efforts to Improve the Minimum Wage Blocked
(2014-05-02)Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate blocked the \Minimum Wage Fairness Act\ (S. 2223), a bill that would raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 by 2016 and has bipartisan support among the majority of Americans. ... -
Monthly Latino Employment Report: December 2014
(2015-01-09)Monthly Latino Employment Report: Latino Employment Statistics for December 2014 The U.S. Department of Labor reported today that U.S. employers added 252,000 jobs in December 2014, rounding out a strong fourth quarter ... -
Latino Jobs Report: Job Growth Slows in March
(2015-04-03)The U.S. Department of Labor reported today that U.S. employers added 126,000 jobs in March 2015, the lowest net job gain since December 2013. -
Latino Jobs Report: Construction Resurges
(2015-05-08)U.S. employers added 223,000 jobs in April, nearly three times the growth in the previous month. -
Latino Jobs Report: Job Growth Continues in May
(2015-06-05)The U.S. Department of Labor reported that U.S. employers added 280,000 jobs in May 2015, an increase of 57,000 jobs (20%) from the previous month. The national unemployment rate, at 5.5%, changed little. Employment gains ... -
Latino Jobs Report: Health Care Industry Shows Promising Growth Opportunities
(2015-07-02)In June 2015, employers added 223,000 jobs , 57,000 less than the previous month, and the unemployment rate declined slightly from 5.5% to 5.3%. Job growth occurred in professional and business services, health care, ... -
Latino Jobs Report: Latino Unemployment Sees Slight Increase
(2015-08-07)In July, the U.S. economy added 215,000 jobs while the national unemployment rate remained unchanged at 5.3%, lower than the 235,000 average monthly gain for the previous three months. The unemployment rate for Latinos ... -
Latino Jobs Report: Health Care Adds Most Jobs in August
(2015-09-04)U.S. employers added 173,000 jobs in August 2015, the lowest number of new jobs added this summer. The national unemployment rate inched down to 5.1%. Although the unemployment rate for Latinos also declined slightly to ... -
Latino Jobs Report: October Sees Return of Strong Job Growth
(2015-11-06)The U.S. Department of Labor reported today that U.S employers added 271,000 jobs in October 2015. This represents the highest number of new jobs added to the U.S. labor market this year since a peak in February. The ...
