Hispanic Work Force Characteristics

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Abstract
The Hispanic population in the United States includes a wide diversity of peoples with a common language and other common cultural experiences. Many governmental programs and data collection efforts focus on the Hispanic population as though it were a monolithic group of people. In reality each of the population groups included in the Hispanic population (Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, and other Hispanic groups) can differ greatly from each other on a variety of social and economic characteristics. Diversity among Hispanic subgroups will be a major theme of this chapter, along with comparisons between the Hispanic and the white, not Hispanic populations. In this chapter I will touch on the following topics:

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