in the past two decades while wealth concentration in the uppermost tiers of income has increased (Changing Our World, 2001).
• Although Hispanic males have the highest labor force participation of any ethnic group, according to a March 9, 2000, report
by the National Council on La Raza, the number of low-income
Hispanic households has doubled in the past twenty years
(Pementel, 2002).
• The African American unemployment rate was reported at
9 percent, compared with 5.6 percent for the overall…
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