Increases unemployment among Latinos

While the proposal of President Barack Obama continues to stagnate without the approval of lawmakers to create jobs, more and more Latinos who are without a job. And this despite the fact that for the first time in the last six months the unemployment rate fell to 9.0% overall.
For Latinos, the effect was quite the contrary: unemployment rose from 11.3% to 11.4% even though it reported 80 000 net additional jobs in the country, after subtracting the layoffs in government offices and the continued decline in activity in the construction.
Only in this industry lost 20,000 jobs between September and October.
Even the experts find a clear reason why the unemployment rate among Latinos increased, when in general had the opposite effect.
Lauren Appelbaum, director of Labor Research Institute at UCLA, part of the reason may be on the decline of jobs in construction, an area in which many Latinos often work, but also highlights another interesting point that has to do more with a mathematical equation with the simple fact that fewer Latinos without trade.
Currently, 2.66 million Hispanics in the United States seeking work.
"October was virtually the same number of unemployed Hispanics in September, but there were fewer Latinos who were seeking work last month," said Appelbaum. "That is, some people have come to be counted in the labor force and that makes those who are still looking for work to expand the percentage of those who are unemployed."
"From what I'm not sure why it is people are leaving to seek jobs, but can be many reasons. They may be disappointed not to find a job, have returned to school or are being left at home caring for a relative ".
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said the tenth increase in the unemployment rate for Latinos is "negligible," although he said he was concerned about the loss of jobs in the construction sector, especially following most Republicans are obstructing a job creation plan that focuses on renovating many of the U.S. infrastructure to revive the construction sector.
Between September and October there were 104,000 contracts. In the private sector, areas where there were more new workers were the services, hotels and recreation, health care and mining. But the 24,000 layoffs in public offices due to budget cuts, made the net work is set at 80 000, down from the 114 000 jobs on average than were created in the last three months.
"We're not moving anywhere, the country is sailing without direction because they are not creating jobs. We need much more growth you're seeing," said Appelbaum. "At the rate we are creating jobs, the country is going to take 33 years to return to unemployment rates that existed before the crisis."
The same chief of the Presidential Council of Economic Advisers in the White House, Alan Krueger, admitted that the unemployment rate remains "unacceptably high" while not improving "fast enough".
The number of unemployed throughout the country reaches nearly 14 million, and half of those jobs have been lost since the crisis originated.
Between October 2011 and 2010, about 1.3 million people have left the labor force, ie, are no longer looking for work, but they are not used.
"If those people today still were looking for work, the unemployment rate would be much greater than we are seeing," said the economist.
"The country needs to do something to create jobs. There are many parts of the Obama plan that would help create jobs. If we fail to continue to lose jobs, increase hiring. Every month there are millions of ads and see who are hired only 80 thousand people on the jobs we lose. "
This expert does not rule out that next year's presidential elections are affecting the recruitment policy, to a Republican party that would interest not to approve the measures Obama to win points ahead of elections.
"The pressure is there. The Democrats say that there put the proposal to create jobs and Republicans opposed it, while they claim that the president's plan is not good because it increases the spending," said Appelbaum. "In my opinion, we need more stimulus. The earlier we had worked well, but it was not enough because the problem was bigger than it was previously thought."
"Now for the holiday season many stores will be hiring, but will only temporarily. Unemployment will continue high unless they do something completely different."
'We're not moving anywhere, the country is sailing without direction because they are not creating jobs. We need much more growth you're seeing. "