Latino Jobs Report: Construction Jobs on the Rise

It’s the first Friday of the month, which means the federal government has released unemployment figures for the past month. It also means it’s time for the Latino Jobs Report.

The unemployment rate, at 5.4 percent, didn’t change very much, but 223,000 jobs were filled in April. Forty five thousand of those were construction jobs that Latinos took. See the whole report below for a complete picture of Latino employment in the United States.

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