unemployment
Unemployment Benefits Could Impact Latinos
By Raisa Camargo, Voxxi Members in Congress have insisted on establishing a balanced approach to the fiscal cliff, while urging the extension of unemployment benefits for the past few weeks to […]
Latinos Less Likely To Receive Unemployment Benefits
By Roque Planas, Huffington Post Latino Voices Even as rightwing pundits like Ann Coulter and Bill O’Reilly paint the Latino community as over-reliant on government, a new study highlights that Hispanics […]
Study: Latino Stereotypes Strong Regarding Education, Crime, Unemployment
PRESS RELEASE DENVER — A new study led by the University of Cincinnati examines stereotypes of immigrants from four global regions and measures opinions of the impact of immigration on […]
Unemployment And Obama: Mr. Eight Percent And Counting!
By Grace Flores-Hughes, Voxxi When President Obama was elected, one of the first declarations he made was that he would never allow the country’s unemployment rate to rise above eight […]
Hispanic Unemployment Rate Climbs
By Griselda Neváres, Voxxi The unemployment rate among Hispanics in May rose significantly to 11.0 percent, up from 10.3 percent in April. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that overall […]
January Jobs Report: Latino Unemployment Remains High
Despite the U.S. economy’s addition of 243,000 jobs in January, the Latino community is still struggling with an unemployment rate of 10.5%. According to the U.S. Labor Department’s January report, the […]
Despite High Unemployment, Hiring Discrimination Remains
By David Elliot, otherwords.org Many people know that some 14 million Americans, officially about 9 percent of the nation’s work force, are unemployed. Another 12 million are under-employed. That means […]
Latino Unemployment Still Higher Than National Average
Latinos continue to suffer from a higher unemployment rate than the national average, according to a report from Hispanic Business: The unemployment rate for Hispanics ticked up a notch in October to […]
Education Cuts Will Increase Latino Unemployment
By Efrain Nieves At 17.7 percent Connecticut has the third-highest unemployment rate in the nation with Latinos at the lead. Only Rhode Island, with 21.8 percent unemployment, and Nevada, 18.6 percent, have […]
News Taco To Go: Pirates, Kobe Bryant, Unemployment And More
Unemployment claims rose again this week, to 412,000, hinting that perhaps the economy isn’t doing as well as we’d hoped. The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on […]