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    VI. Employment Change in Occupations Grouped by Education Clusters

    An analysis of changes in employment by occupation shows that Latino and non-Latino workers were moving on different paths in the labor market in 2004. While the two groups of workers tended to gain and lose jobs in the same industries, there is a considerable gap in the kinds of work in which they are […]

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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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    VIII. Wage Growth in 2004

    The rapid growth in Hispanic employment appears to have come at the price of lower wages. Contributing to this trend is their concentration in specific segments of the labor market, in particular, the lower-skill occupations. Consequently, real wages for Hispanic workers declined for the second consecutive year in 2004. The cumulative decline over the past […]

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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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    The Biology Wars: The Religion, Science and Education Controversy

    Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Florida, in December 2005 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. Conference speaker Edward J. Larson, Talmadge Chair of Law and Russell Professor of American History at the University of Georgia, discussed the history of […]

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    VI. Conclusions

    Latinos have much at stake in any changes in the federal Social Security retirement system. Today’s older Hispanics rely heavily on Social Security. More than 600,000 Hispanics age 65 or older are kept out of poverty by Social Security. Almost half of older Latinos receive more than 90 percent of their income from Social Security. […]

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    Islam and Democratization in the Middle East

    Los Angeles, California The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pacific Council on International Policy co-hosted a meeting on “Islam and Democratization in the Middle East” on April 27, 2005, at the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles. The roundtable featured one of Egypt’s foremost human rights activists, Saad Eddin […]

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    Faith and Conflict: The Global Rise of Christianity

    12:00-2:00pm Council on Foreign Relations New York, New York The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Council on Foreign Relations co-hosted a luncheon roundtable entitled Faith and Conflict: The Global Rise of Christianity on March 2, 2005 at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. With more than two billion adherents […]

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    II. President Bush’s Social Security Proposal

    In the State of the Union address on February 2, 2005, President Bush proposed an overhaul of the Social Security system that would enable persons now under the age of 55 (those born after 1949) to choose to participate in new individual investment accounts or to remain in the current Social Security system. Under the […]

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