Latino Jobless Rate Falls to 9 Percent As U.S. Adds 165K Jobs
U.S. employers added 165,000 jobs in April and hiring was much stronger in the previous two months than the government had first estimated, according to the Department of Labor report released on Friday
And the unemployment rate fell from 7.6 percent to 7.5 percent, fueled in part by a 52-month low in Latino unemployment — 9.0 percent, down from 9.2 percent in March. This puts the Hispanic jobless rate at its the lowest level since Nov. 2008, when it stood at 8.6 percent.
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