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    With Ben Franklin’s Blessings: A Primer on the Faith-Based Initiative

    Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Florida, in May 2005 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. Conference speaker John DiIulio, a University of Pennsylvania professor and former director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, discussed the […]

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    With Ben Franklin’s Blessings: A Primer on the Faith-Based Initiative

    Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Florida, in May 2005 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. Conference speaker John DiIulio, a University of Pennsylvania professor and former director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, discussed the […]

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    Latino Labor Report, 2004

    Hispanic workers enjoyed significant gains in employment in 2004. But the concentration of Latinos in relatively low-skill occupations contributed to reduced earnings for them for the second year in a row.

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    VII. The Occupational Concentration of Hispanic Workers

    The preceding sections have made clear that newly arrived immigrants played a major role in the growth of the labor force and the number employed in 2004. It was also shown that Hispanic workers, the majority of whom are foreign-born, are grouped into relatively low-skill occupations with limited education requirements. But what specifically are these […]

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    II. The Growth of the Hispanic Population and Its Voting Strength

    Between the 2000 and 2004 elections the Hispanic population grew by 5.7 million persons accounting for half of the increase in the U.S. population of 11.5 million. However, nearly two-thirds (63%) of the people added to the Latino population were not eligible to vote in 2004 either because they were too young or because they […]

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    III. Changes in Employment in 2004

    Hispanics maintained their role as a primary force of change in the labor market as the economic recovery gathered momentum in 2004. Both Hispanics and non-Hispanics scored gains in 2004 as total employment increased by 2.5 million workers. In absolute terms, the increase in the number employed for non-Latinos was more than for Latinos, and […]

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    The Coming Religious Wars? Demographics and Conflict in Islam and Christianity

    Pew Research Center Washington, D.C. The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Council on Foreign Relations co-hosted a roundtable to explore geopolitical implications of the growth, distribution and migration of Muslim and Christian populations. Population momentum – rapid growth due to previously high fertility rates – is a critical issue in the […]

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    IV. Changes in Employment by Nativity and Period of Arrival

    The demand for immigrant labor remains robust and foreign-born workers were a major component of change in the labor market in 2004. Those who entered the U.S. between 2000 and 2004 were significant contributors to labor force and employment growth, especially among Hispanics. In contrast with recent years, native-born workers also shared in the job […]

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    IX. Conclusions

    Employment growth, which first showed signs of recovery in 2003, maintained its momentum in 2004 as the economy added 2.5 million new jobs. Hispanic workers secured 1 million of the new jobs while the remainder went to non-Hispanic workers. Almost all of the increase in Hispanic employment was accounted for by newly arrived immigrants. The […]

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    II. Long-term Trends Show Progress in 2004

    This report analyzes labor market outcomes for Hispanic and immigrant workers in the one-year period from the fourth quarter of 2003 to the fourth quarter of 2004. The present section of the report sets the stage by reviewing trends in the major labor market indicators from 2000 to 2004. The main analysis begins in the […]