Sunday, February 12, 2012

Latinos, hit hard by job losses, are making strong comeback

Latinos are the only group whose employment numbers have returned to pre-recession levels. - - Donna Poisl

By Don Lee, Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Washington— After scraping by on handyman jobs for a year, Bert Qintana figured he'd have to leave his wife and teenage son at their home near Taos, N.M., and find work elsewhere.

Then Qintana got a call last month from Chevron Mining, which runs a mine 20 miles away. Would he be interested in hauling muck from the molybdenum mine for $17.05 an hour? He leaped at the offer.
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