Despite "significant" job growth in sectors with high Hispanic participation, Latinos face ever greater job insecurity, according to a report released Monday by the National Council of La Raza.
While Latinos "are making important contributions to the industries that are helping drive our economic recovery," they remain "in a precarious position when it comes to keeping their jobs and advancing in the labor market," Eric Rodríguez, NCLR Vice President of Research, Advocacy and Legislation, said in a statement accompanying the report.
Citing Labor Department statistics, NCLR notes that the service sector contributed most of the 192,000 jobs created in January and February, especially in areas of high Latino representation such as administrative services and waste management, nursing, residential care facilities for seniors and truck transport.
In 2010, Hispanics made up 17 percent of the labor force in the area of home nursing care, and 15 percent of general nursing and residential care facilities. At the same time they made up 29 percent of storage services, 21 percent of "transportation support activities," and 16 percent of the truck transport sector.
However, February was the third consecutive month during which Latinos exited the workforce, which probably contributed to the slight lowering of their unemployment rate to 11.6 percent in February, compared to 11.9 percent the month before.READ MORE
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