Trump doesn’t deserve praise for appalling employment gaps
Trump doesn’t deserve praise for appalling employment gaps
CHICAGO — It is said that the best lies have a grain of truth in them. That’s the ideal way to characterize President Trump’s assertion in the State of the […]
Unemployment rates drop for Latinos
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco (1 minute read) The Bureau of Labor statistics released its March unemployment numbers and the overall jobs situation isn’t looking good. Wall Street Economists had predicted […]
Jobs Report: Latino Unemployment Rate Falls in July
*Latino unemployment dropped from 5.8 to 5.4 percent. VL By Brian Latimer, NBC News July surpassed expectations for job growth in the U.S., and although the national unemployment rate stayed […]
Good news for February Latino employment
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco (1 minute read) Good news for the economy overall, and some good news for the U.S. Latino economy specifically. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released February […]
Latino unemployment dips to 5.9%
Victor Landa, NewsTaco Today, The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced its count of unemployed persons for the month of January and said that [tweet_dis]151,000 new jobs were added to the nation’s […]
What I didn’t hear in the State of the Union speech, and why
Victor Landa, NewsTaco More than any other speech that President Obama has delivered, last nights’ State of the Union was done more for himself than for any audience, real or […]
Latino unemployment rate drops to 6.3 percent
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its December employment numbers this morning, and economists are calling the report stellar. [tweet_dis]There were 1,655,000 unemployed Latinos in the U.S. […]
Fact check: Is Latino youth really 36% unemloyed, per Bernie Sanders?
*Aside from this Bernie Sanders mention and a quick discussion about immigration, Latinos were scarcely mentioned directly in last night’s Democratic presidential debate. VL By Louis Jacobson, Politifact During his […]
August unemployment report shows small change for Latinos
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco The Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning released its employment report for the month August. The total nonfarm payroll employment for the nation increased by 173,000 […]
U.S. Economy Adds 223,000 Jobs; Unemployment at 5.3%
*The unemployment numbers are out a few days earlier than usual this month due to the Fourth of July holiday. [tweet_dis]The Bureaus of Labor Statistics reports that the Latino unemployment […]
