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...America's latest great wave of immigrants, Hispanics are learning another hard lesson: latecomers start at the bottom. Nearly 27% of Hispanic families in the U.S. earn under $7,000 a year; only 16.6% of non-Hispanic families fare as badly. For the second quarter of 1978 the Hispanic unemployment rate was 8.9%, while the national average was 5.8%. As a group, Hispanics are the most undereducated of Americans?despite their own deep belief in the maxim, Saber es poder (Knowledge is power). Only 40% have completed high school, vs. 46% of U.S. blacks and 67% of the whites...
Puerto Ricans are even more hard pressed than New York's ghetto blacks; 48% earn less than $7,000 a year, compared with 42% among blacks. The proportion of Puerto Ricans on welfare is 34%, vs. 32% for blacks. Among Puerto Ricans over 16 years old, only 6% have completed any job training; the rate for blacks is twice as high. With 14% of New York City's population, Puerto Ricans hold only 3.1% of police department jobs and 1.3% of those in the fire department...
...back, and if you don't like what you see, remember that you can't expect much from a league in which Sidney Wicks and Brent Musburger earn their living...
...factions. He worked to aid emigrants' families and unemployed youth and?like Naples' Ursi ?learned to live with a powerful Communist influence in the city. As a diplomat, Pappalardo pleaded for an end to "false nationalism" and for recognition that all nationalities are equal?a stand that may earn him support among Third World Cardinals...
...they buy from them, and that the LDCs absorb fully 30% of the industrial world's exports of finished products. So rather than worrying about the LDCS' "minuscule" exports of such products, McNamara said, the richer countries would be wise to help the LDCS continue to earn the foreign currency that they need to buy the developed countries' goods. Citing a list of new import barriers erected by the U.S., Britain, Canada, France and other manufacturing nations against Third World shoes, textiles, TV sets and other products, McNamara warned that "excessive protectionism is not only unfair...