Current Event: "Study Details Challenges for Hispanics, Implications for Labor Force

Hispanics are becoming a bigger and bigger part of America each year, with their increasing population and influence in America’s job industry. However, according to the “The Dallas Morning News” the Hispanics future does not look very bright. Most of the Hispanics that are coming into America are looking for better opportunities in jobs and not education. “But the study’s researchers identified education as the biggest hurdle, nothing that Hispanics have higher school dropout rates, lower college enrollment and less job training than the overall population in an economy ever more reliant on higher school jobs” (“Study details challenges for Hispanics, Implications for Labor Force”). This results in a downward cycle for the Hispanics. Because the Hispanics are more worried about working and not their education, it results in Hispanics having a poor education, following by a low paying job. This is one of the main reasons for why so many Hispanics are part of the lower class. This is one of the main reasons why it is so hard for the Hispanics to move from the lower class into the middle class. “…the study found that Hispanics as a group are losing economic ground relative to non-Hispanic whites because of a large pool of low-skilled workers, many of whom are illegal immigrants,” (Study details challenges for Hispanics, Implications for Labor Force”). I think that this is a huge problem for the Hispanics because they are becoming one of the main part of America’s population, it is important that part of their population is in the middle class. Because so many immigrants have no money, it is almost impossible for them to not work, so they cannot afford to have an education. They have to immediately start working in order to start over in their new country. It is hard to know when this vicious cycle will end because of how important it is that the Hispanic immigrants get very low paying jobs, that require no education. This is so that they can start to pay for necesities that they need to survive as new immigrants.

"Study details challenges for Hispanics, implications for labor force." Dallas Morning News (March 1, 2006): NA. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Deerfield High School. 7 Feb. 2010.
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