Better Education vital for Latinos

According to, Fox News, Young Hispanics in Chicago are destined for the same kind of low-paying jobs held by their immigrant parents without an improvement in the quality of education, a new study from DePaul University says.

Looking at 2010 Census data, the report concludes that half of the - overwhelmingly Mexican - Hispanic workforce in the six counties of the metropolitan area are employed in food service, construction and manufacturing jobs.
Forty percent of the U.S.-born children of Mexican immigrants find themselves in similar positions, according to the research, which was carried out by DePaul as part of the New Journalism on Latino Children project.
Only 1 percent of Mexican-Americans in the Chicago area are work in fields such as science, technology and engineering.
Latinos accounted for three of every five new workers in the metro area between 2000 and 2010, the study found. And while the vast majority of those workers are U.S. citizens, they stand "at or near the bottom of Chicago's education and wage hierarchies."
Among the city's working Hispanic men, those born in Mexico earn a median annual income of $28,000, compared with $47,000 for U.S.-born Mexicans, and non-Latino white males make $65,000 a year. To read more visit # http://bit.ly/tSTVBp