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Moving From the Margins: Puerto Rican Young Men and Family Poverty
(1993-08-06)
The following report contains the first-year research and findings of the NCLR Puerto Rican Young Men and Poverty Project. The Puerto Rican Young Men Project is a two-year community-based effort to understand and begin to ...
Twenty-Two Hispanic Leaders Discuss Poverty
(1990-11-02)
Poverty has been a factor in virtually every Hispanic issue, from education to community development, from housing to civil rights. However, there is little documentation of the ways Hispanics have worked to end poverty, ...
Speaking Out Loud: Conversations with Young Puerto Rican Men
(1994-08-01)
In an effort to draw attention to the strengths, needs, and status of young Puerto Rican men, the NCLR Poverty Project conducted a two-year community-based study on young Puerto Rican men and family poverty. This second ...
Latinos and Jobs: A Review of Ten States and Puerto Rico
(NCLR, 1995-01-06)
This research report is intended to be one step toward the examination of the experience of Latinos in JOBS nationally. Working within the constraints of limited national data on Hispanics in JOBS and AFDC, it profiles ...
Hispanics in the Workforce, Part II: Hispanic Women
(1988-07-01)
This report analyzes the available data on Hispanic women in the work force. Demographic information is reviewed as background to an evaluation of the labor market status of Hispanic women. Emphasis is placed on employment ...
The Empty Promise: The EEOC and Hispanics
(1993-12-03)
This report focuses on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the largest of the federal civil rights enforcement agencies, and its efforts to address employment discrimination against Hispanics. To provide ...
The Forgotten Two-Thirds: An Hispanic Perspective on Apprenticeship, European Style
(1993)
NCLR carried out an Hispanic Consultation on Apprenticeship in 1992, in order to add an informed Hispanic perspective to the current policy debate about the appropriateness of apprenticeships — and the applicability of a ...
Hispanics in the Workforce
(1987-02-23)
This paper examines the available data on the status of Hispanics in the work force. Data on youthfulness, fertility rates, education, poverty, labor force participation rates, unemployment, earnings, and occupational ...