Hispanic-white job divide grows. Latinos moving into high-paying fields at slower rate, study finds

“As a whole, Latinos were not moving ahead into higher-paid professional occupations. They were rooting deeper into historically lower-wage jobs, according to a study by the Pew Hispanic Center and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

The study shows a widening of the occupational divide between the two largest segments of the labor force – Latinos and whites. The findings are surprising in that many believed that the rising economic tide in last decade of the 20th century lifted all boats….”

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