Posts Tagged ‘unemployment’
Puerto Rico’s Unemployment Numbers : So How’s that Colony Thing Working Out For Ya?
10:25 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Labor| Money| Puerto Rico| economy · 15 Comments
26 Aug 2009
For as long as I have believed in self-determination for Puerto Rico, I have thought that talk about the island becoming the 51st state was just that, talk. This is partially because of issues of race and identity. Despite the post-racial times the U.S. finds itself in (allegedly), the U.S. will not accept a brown, Spanish speaking nation as a state. I also think though, that annexation isn’t attractive because economically, Puerto Rico isn’t attractive. Claro, the island has been exploited economically, pero statehood would require the U.S. to invest more than it would get back from the island. Just take a look at the unemployment numbers coming out of la isla del encanto:
The unemployment rate in Puerto Rico stands at 16.5 percent, the highest of all U.S. jurisdictions, and the government is announcing even more layoffs of public employees.
The Face of Latino Unemployment
2:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics · Comments Off
14 Apr 2008
Pobrecito. Seems that former U.S. Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, has been having a rough time finding work ever since he was forced to resign.
He has, through friends, put out inquiries, they said, and has not found any takers. What makes Mr. Gonzales’s case extraordinary is that former attorneys general, the government’s chief lawyer, are typically highly sought.
A longtime loyalist to George W. Bush dating to their years together in Texas, Mr. Gonzales was once widely viewed as a strong candidate to be the first Hispanic-American nominated one day to the Supreme Court. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he carried an impressive personal story as the child of poor Mexican immigrants.
So basically he’s the perfect Latino token for any law firm! The problem is that law firms usually have a problem with liars, especially such public ones (go ahead insert your lawyer joke here- I know you want to).
My local McDonald’s is hiring.
Via / NYT
Latinos Working More
2 Oct 2006
More and more Latinos are working, at least according to the U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics.The most recent numbers put Latino unemployment at a new low of 5.2 percent. And according to a report by the Pew Hispanic Center:
Unemployment rates between Latinos and “non-Hispanic whites” are now separated by a 0.6 percent margin.The Pew Hispanic Center’s study also found that Latino workers accounted for about 40 percent of all the workers who joined the U.S. labor force in the last year. Their large numbers are partly due to the boom in the construction industry in southern and western states over the last year.
Via / DiversityInc.
Help Wanted : Immigrants Only Need Apply?
11:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration| Labor · Comments Off
6 Apr 2006
Undocumented immigrants take jobs away from citizens. That statement is the underlying premise of an article written by Earl Ofari Hutchinson posted on AlterNet earlier this week. He cites examples of African-American men applying for jobs and being turned away only to have Latinos get the same low wage, no benefit gigs minutes later. So are immigrants taking jobs away from others, especially the urban poor? Or as Earl Ofari Hutchinson states are all of the urban poor , including immigrants not finding work :
because of discrimination, poor education, government budget slashes and the flight of manufacturers to other countries?
As long as communities fight each other instead of working with each other to get to the the real roots of the problems of unemployment, mass incarceration, and unfair wages , just to name a few issues, no community , will move forward except those already holding the power.
Via / AlterNet
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