Minorities and ethnic groups have always been an important part of the American labor force. In many instances, groups were allowed, or even encouraged, to immigrate to the United States to fill specific labor needs. Perhaps the most obvious example is the involuntary immigration of Africans, who provided slave labor for southern plantations as early as the seventeenth century. Later, Asians and H…
Participation in the labor force means that a person is either employed or actively seeking employment. Those who are not looking for work because they are "going to school" or "unable to work" are not considered part of the labor force. The labor force increases with long-term growth of the population. It responds to economic forces and social trends, and its size chan…
To be classified as unemployed, a person must: In December 2003 approximately six million whites, or 5 percent of whites in the civilian labor force, were unemployed in the United States. Approximately 1.7 million African-Americans, or 10.3 percent of African-Americans in the civilian labor force, were unemployed. (See Table 3.1.) Among Hispanics, 1.3 million, or 6.6 percent of Hispanics in the ci…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projected that more Hispanics than African-Americans would enter the workforce between 2000 and 2010, causing the group to make up more of the workforce than African-Americans by 2010. The number of African-Americans in the labor force was expected to increase 20.7 percent, and the group would total more than twenty million workers, or 12.7 percent of the workforce. …
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