For African-Americans and Latinos, the path to upward mobility in the oil and gas industry remains filled with both hurdles and hope.
A 2017 U.S. Labor Department analysis revealed that African-American workers held just 9 percent of the jobs in oil and gas extraction and, despite the boom in the industry over the past decade, Black Americans never comprised more than one-tenth of the nation’s oil and gas workforce.
The report also noted similar statistics for Latinos. READ MORE AT THE CHRONICLE
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