Housing Woes Worry Minorities the Most

I saw a report on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that said that the credit crunch that has affected Wall Street is now filtering down to the ordinary Joe who needs a car or a home loan.

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Hispanic Immigrants Are Earning More, But Still Less Than Asian Immigrants

The Pew Hispanic Center has released yet another study on the demographics of Hispanics in the United States, this one on wages.

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Young African Americans and Hispanics are Not as Happy as Young Whites

A new survey of 1,280 people conducted by MTV and the Associated press has found that young White Americans aged 13 - 24 are happier with their lives than minorities of the same age group.

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Assuming all Hispanics are the Same is Offensive and Ignorant

I remember a Hispanic comedian who once joked about how the country of origin changes for most Hispanics as they move from city to city.

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Massachusetts Proposes Anti-Discrimination Law to Protect Short and Fat Workers

Overweight employees and short employees earn less, get fewer promotions, and get less respect than their tall and slender counterparts.

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Three Things You Should Do to Fight Stereotypes in the Workplace

Workplace discrimination will hopefully be nonexistent in the workplace someday. Nonetheless, stereotypes are a much harder thing to defeat, mainly because they exist in the minds of individuals who have been taught and conditioned to think that way.

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Is the Increase in Workforce Diversity Hurting African American Opportunity?

I came across this interesting article in THE CALL about the struggles that Black Americans face as they strive to make it up the corporate ladder. The article listed a number of possible causes as to why African Americans continue to struggle, but I found one of the reasons to be particularly intriguing.

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Ten Percent of All US Counties are Majority Minority

Earlier this week, the US Census Bureau released estimates that in more than 300 US counties (about 10 percent of all US counties), more than half of the population is a racial or ethnic minority.

In addition, Texas, New Mexico, California, and Hawaii are all majority minority states, with Texas being the newest addition to the group. Hawaii is the only state in the United States that has always been a majority minority state.

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Forty Percent of African Americans Rely on Social Security Benefits Alone For Retirement

According to The Nationwide Retirement Decisions Study, though African American employees may be more informed about retirement than their colleagues, forty percent of African Americans may not adequately prepare for retirement.

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Blacks and Hispanics Face Greater Odds in Starting New Businesses

Up and coming African American and Hispanic entrepreneurs face greater odds than non-diversity entrepreneurs in opening a business. This information comes on the heels of a new small business study entitled "The Effect of Wealth and Race on Start-up Rates, by New York University doctoral student Maritza Salazar.

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