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78%. Hispanics are projected to account for 78% of net new workers between 2020 and 2030. The U.S. labor force growth rate has slowed over the past couple of decades – and what growth has occurred is largely due to the increasing number of Hispanic workers. Non-Hispanic growth was negligible over the past 10 years, at just 0.5%.
By comparison, between 1966 and 2013, overall Hispanic participation rates in the workforce increased from 2.5 percent to 13.9 percent ( 2013 EEO-1 Indicators report ). In 2013, the United States' 54 million Hispanics made up roughly 17 percent of the population. Between July 1, 2012, and July 1, 2013, the number of Hispanics in the US ...
Many stay for six to 10 months and then go back home to Mexico – before reapplying year after year. But the process of getting a seasonal work visa is beset by pitfalls for the farmworkers. For ...
Mexicans work long hours, but productivity lags. Mexico is among the hardest-working of the leading industrialized countries, according to data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and ...
Another available data point is the number of Mexican immigrants who entered the U.S. through a temporary work visa, such as the H-2A visa for farmworkers, or the TN or H-1B visas for high-skilled immigrants. In fiscal 2020, Mexican farmworkers obtained about 198,000 temporary permits to come work in the U.S., up 5% from the prior fiscal year ...
Among occupational groups in 2014, 43.4 percent of workers in farming, fishing, and forestry were Hispanic or Latino. Other occupations with high shares of Hispanics or Latinos were building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (36.7 percent) and construction and extraction occupations (32.3 percent).
Among the detailed Hispanic or Latino groups in the third quarter of 2014, Mexicans made up the largest share of the U.S. labor force at 10.2 percent, followed by Puerto Ricans at 1.3 percent. The most recent data show little change. Mexicans accounted for 11.4 percent of the Nation’s labor force while Puerto Ricans, now ranked third behind ...
