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Our Mission
Hispanic Workforce empowers HR Managers throughout corporate America, providing solutions to the challenge of identifying, attracting, retaining and nurturing Hispanic and Latino employees. We provide HR solutions to the challenge of fostering a diverse workplace environment in which minority employees can fully develop and use their talents, knowledge and experience to contribute to their employers, while pursuing their careers.
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THERE IS A DEMOGRAPHIC SEA CHANGE AFFECTING the American workplace, unprecedented in scope. As recently at 1990, the U.S. Census believed that Hispanics would not overtake African-Americans to become the nation’s largest minority until 2020. It was an arresting development, and when, in 2002, the U.S. Census reported that there were now more Hispanics than African-Americans, and that the United States was the fastest-growing Spanish-speaking nation in the world. “Hispanics have edged past blacks as the nation’s largest minority group,” Lynette Clemetson declared in the New York Times in January 2003, documenting the federal government’s acceptance of the historic demographic developments in the United States in the first decade of the 21st century.
Every year since then the Census Bureau has continued to document changes in the American workforce, changes that herald the ascendance of Hispanics – and the Hispanic employee. Consider a few tantalizing facts:
* Hispanics are almost a decade younger than the general population;
* More than a third of Hispanics are younger than 18 years old;
* Fertility rates of Hispanics are higher than the natural replacement level;
* More than 34 million Mexicans have a legal claim of some kind to seek to emigrate to the United States;
* Hispanics who attain graduate degrees earn 15% more than their non-Hispanic counterparts; and
* The United States is the fast-growing Spanish-speaking country in the world.
These changes have not unfolded without comment. “It is a turning point in the nation’s history, a symbolic benchmark of some significance,” Roberto Suro, director of the Pew Hispanic Center, said of the emergence of Hispanics as the largest minority in the nation. Other voices have been raised in alarm. “The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages. Unlike past immigrant groups, Mexicans and other Hispanics have not assimilated into mainstream U.S. culture, forming instead their own political and linguistic enclaves — from Los Angeles to Miami — and rejecting the Anglo-Protestant values that built the American dream,” Samuel Huntington, of Harvard University, wrote in the pages of Foreign Policy.
Is your organization ready for America’s New Hispanic Workforce?
It can be. We can help.
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