It’s not California, it´s not Texas, and it´s not Florida.
If you take a gamble and guessed the Silver State, you´re right! Nevada, had a 16.4 percent Hispanic unemployment rate during the second quarter of 2009, followed by California at 15.7 percent. Hispanics in Nevada were 1.7 times as likely to be unemployed as non-Hispanic whites, who had a 9.7 percent unemployment rate. Yikes!
Guess what? The unemployment rate is projected to be higher by 2010, according to a report released late last month by the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute. The main finding of the report, titled “Unequal Unemployment,” was that African-Americans and Hispanics had a higher percentage of unemployment than non-Hispanic whites.
And unemployment projections show the number rising to a 17.8 percent unemployment rate among Hispanics by this time next year.
Any ideas to improve the Hispanic unemployment rate in Nevada?
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