Hispanics get help giving their kids a boost
Hispanics get help giving their kids a boost
- March 6, 2013
- Rubén Rumbaut, sociology professor, is quoted in the Wall Street Journal March 6, 2013
From the Wall Street Journal:
The chart projected on a screen painted a grim reality for the Hispanic parents in
the classroom: Latino children nationally lag behind white and African-American children
in reading and math; only 42 out of 100 Hispanic students complete high school; Hispanic
children have the highest obesity rate... "It is exceedingly important to invest in
this population because of its enormous size," said Ruben Rumbaut, an immigration
scholar at the University of California, Irvine. Of the 47 million new workers set
to enter the labor force between now and 2050, 80% will be Hispanic, according to
the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Their share of the overall workforce will double to
30% by 2050 from 15% in 2010.
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