Today some 23.7 million Hispanics are eligible to vote, an increase of more than 4 million since 2008.
And specific demographic groups still have high rates of unemployment – in January, the unemployment rate for teenagers was 20.7%; for African Americans, it was 12.1%, and for Hispanics, 8.4%.
Furman said more work needed to be done and that the unemployment rates for African Americans and Hispanics remained unacceptably high.
Hispanics now account for a record 11% of the nation's electorate, up from 9.5% in 2008," said Pew.
But when you look at the prison population, turns out our prisons are full of poor people and a disproportional amount of African Americans and Hispanics".
The BLS added that the rates remained unchanged for other groups, including adult women at 5.3%, teenagers at 17.7%, blacks at 11.1% and Hispanics at 6.6% The Economic Policy Institute said the jobs additions were "surprising and encouraging" but added: "it's important to put these numbers in context.
For blacks the poverty rate stood at 27% and for Hispanics 24%.
All three are predominantly rural, and have fewer blacks and Hispanics than the national average.
(The abortion ratio among Hispanics also fell slightly, from 28% to 23%.)In other words, while the number of white teens who were getting pregnant was falling, those who were getting pregnant were increasingly likely to keep the baby.
Although prejudice, and patterns of policing, might lead people to think otherwise, surveys show that in most Western countries people from minorities are less likely to drink or use hard drugs: 17% of non-Hispanic white Americans admit to having tried cocaine, compared with 10% of blacks and 11% of Hispanics.
A case can be made Mr Obama has come close to making it explicitly that a humane policy would involve swift deportations of Central American children, to convince families to stop sending them.The dismal consequences of disorder on the borderA final pillar of immigration politics involves the idea that Hispanics—a fast-growing block are reliably in favour of a more welcoming policy.
