The size of the Hispanic workforce is at an all-time high, Latinos are more college educated than ever.
But despite this, Hispanic families brought in less income and have less wealth than they did two decades ago.
In other words, all the college degrees earned by Hispanics over the last two decades have not led to long term wealth, government data shows. What’s more, Latinos with degrees got hit harder by the recession than those without.
While the U.S. job market relies on Latino employees more than ever before, with the Hispanic labor participation rate up 137 percent in 20 years, and the number of Latinos attending college more than tripling since 1996, according to Pew Research, the wealth gap continues to grow as income and wealth for Hispanic families is less today than it was in 1992. READ MORE AT FOX NEWS LATINO
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