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    Employment: Foreign Born vs. Native Born

    In the year following the official end of the recent recession, the unemployment rate for immigrant workers fell 0.6 percentage points, while for native-born workers it rose 0.5 percentage points.

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    III. Discrimination, Deportation, Detainment and Satisfaction

    A growing majority of Hispanics say that discrimination is a major problem preventing Latinos from succeeding, a view most strongly expressed by those born outside the United States. Even so, there has been no change in the share of Latinos who have had a personal experience with discrimination, and fewer today than in 2008 say […]

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    IV. Earnings of Native-born and Foreign-born Workers

    The weekly earnings of workers during the recession and the initial stage of the recovery were generally stagnant.[19. numoffset=”19″ Data on weekly earnings are available only for employed persons. Household income is better able to capture the effects of unemployment on the economic well-being of households. The latest estimate from the Census Bureau shows that […]

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    II. Employment and Unemployment in the Recession and Recovery

    The Great Recession, lasting from December 2007 to June 2009, is aptly named for a number of reasons. The longest economic downturn in the U.S. since World War II put millions of people out of work, sent the unemployment rate soaring to 30-year highs and pushed long-term unemployment to unprecedented levels.[12. numoffset=”12″ The full range […]

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    The 2010 Congressional Reapportionment and Latinos

    Hispanic voters are nearly three times more prevalent in states that gained congressional seats and Electoral College votes in the 2010 reapportionment than they are in states that lost seats.

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    National Latino Leader? The Job is Open

    When asked in an open-ended question on a nationwide survey of Latinos to name the person they consider “the most important Latino leader in the country today,” nearly two-thirds (64%) of Hispanics said they did not know.

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    Economy Again Tops the News

    The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism did not publishing a full Weekly News Index report for November 22-28, 2010. PEJ is, however, making the data available.

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    Section 1: Views of Obama

    The past year has seen a series of momentous political events – rising unemployment, passage of controversial health care legislation, a sweeping defeat for Democrats in the midterm elections and a historically active lame-duck session of Congress. But the public’s impression of Barack Obama has remained remarkably steady. At the start of 2010, 49% of […]