Hispanics in the workplace: leveling the playing field

I felt compelled to express my view on the state of minorities in the workplace- especially Hispanics.

I will agree that a lot of progress has been made in corporate America, all in part to Affirmative Action and the concerted effort by major companies to embrace diversity. Yet I feel more could and should be done.
There is plenty of evidence indicating that discrimination in the workplace still exists. In 2008, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) received over 95,000 discrimination charges, almost 34,000 of which were race related (EEOC, 2009). Discrimination, whether real or perceived, can create a lot o problems not only for the organization but also for the individuals involved. 

Hispanics are the fastest growing group in the United States and will comprise 16.4% of the civilian labor force by the year 2016. Hispanics also have tremendous purchasing power..averaging a combine income of $653 billion dollars- a figure expected to reach $1.2 trillion dollars in 2012. In 197615.4% of college student enrollment was accounted for by minorities. In 2007, it inreased to 32.2%. The biggest increase amongst the minority enrollment was found in the Hispanic and Asian populations.

As the economy continued to struggle in 2009, amongst all ethnicity,  African Americans and Hispanics/Latinos saw the biggest decline in jobs. Employment rate for his Hispanics was 12.1% and 14.8% for African Americans.

Although I realize that some of these facts can be attributed to Hispanics and African Americans having lower levels of schooling and jobs that require little to no experience (thus making them easily expendable), I can't help but feel race may have played a part. I am not saying every employer uses race as a determining factor whether to hire someone or not but the facts are a large portion of them do.

I found the article below to be most interesting.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3338/is_201012/ai_n56445025/?tag=content;col1

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My name is Kervis Caraballo, and this is my third semester in the MBA program. I am originally from New York City but have been living in the Lehigh Valley for the past 18 years. I live in Alburtis, PA with my wife and my beautiful 18 months old twins- a boy named Kevin and a girl named Samantha. I received my Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Central Pennsylvania College (Harrisburg, PA)  almost entirely online, so online classes are very familiar to me.

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