Hispanics’ ‘third-generation U-turn’

*This particular research shows that third generation Latinos don’t do as well in school and at work as their parents and grandparents did. It says there is a rend. What do you think? VL

By Álvaro Ortiz, Houston Chronicle

A recent study from The Urban Institute reveals what María Enchautegui, the study’s author, calls “the U-turn” of third-generation Hispanic immigrants: The first and second generations make economic and other gains in the United States; but the third generation falls back.

Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Enchautegui found that, among Hispanics 16 to 18 years old, 86 percent of first-generation immigrants were enrolled in school in 2010 and 2013 — a rate that rose to 91 percent in the second generation, but declined to 87 percent in the third generation.

A similar pattern held in Hispanics 19 to 22 years old; and in Latina immigrants from 16 to 22 who neither attended school or worked.

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