---
title: "II. Latinos and Economic Conditions"
description: "Hispanics, like the general U.S. population, have a bleak outlook on the state of the U.S. economy. When asked how they would rate economic conditions in this country today, more than six-in-ten Hispanics say that economic conditions are poor (63%), and an additional 26% rate conditions as fair. In comparison, according to a recent report […]"
date: "2009-01-08"
authors:
  - name: "Mark Hugo Lopez"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2009/01/08/ii-latinos-and-economic-conditions/"
---

# II. Latinos and Economic Conditions

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Hispanics, like the general U.S. population, have a bleak outlook on the state of the U.S. economy. When asked how they would rate economic conditions in this country today, more than six-in-ten Hispanics say that economic conditions are poor (63%), and an additional 26% rate conditions as fair. In comparison, according to a recent report from the [Pew Research Center for the People & the Press](https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2008/12/11/psychology-of-bad-times-fueling-consumer-cutbacks/) (December 2008), 59% of the general public rates economic conditions as poor, and an additional 33% classifies conditions as fair.

Latinos’ attitudes about the state of the economy are similar across all sub-groups—there are no significant differences in perception by socioeconomic status, or by nativity or other demographic measures.

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