Word: localize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...presidentially assigned posts, none are at the Cabinet level. Hispanics hold only 3.4% of jobs in the federal bureaucracy, while blacks hold 16%, and the Hispanic proportion of federal jobholders has inched up only .7% in the past ten years. The same pattern holds true at state and local levels...
...commercial center. The area now boasts 230 latino restaurants, 30 furniture factories, 20 garment plants, a shoe factory that employs 3,000, and about 30 transplanted cigar factories. Hispanics are prominent in land development and make up 60% of the construction work force. They control 14 of the 67 local commercial banks. One, the Continental National, has seen its deposits swell from $2 million to $29 million in the past four years. Latinos generate an estimated $1.8 billion in annual income and have created 100,000 jobs. Says Jan Luytjes, a business professor at Florida International University: "We are seeing...
...Bade County declared itself to be a bilingual jurisdiction, and Spanish became the second official language for such things as election ballots, public signs and local directories. Despite this accommodating gesture, there is friction between Hispanics and non-Hispanics in Bade. Many English-speaking residents, particularly older ones, resent the pervasiveness of the new language. There are frequent complaints of Cuban clannishness (only 5% of Cubans intermarry) and of arrogance. Result: many anglos are gradually retreating from Miami...
Miami's black community, which makes up 16% of the local population, is particularly resentful. Garth Reeves, publisher of the black Miami Times, warns of black hostility because of competition with Hispanics for low-cost public housing and lower-level service jobs that formerly were a black preserve. Says Reeves: "Before the Cuban influx, blacks had most of the hotel jobs, now they have less than 2%." One reason for this decline is that many jobs now require both English and Spanish, and most blacks do not speak the latter...
...that, they are deeply resented. Some labor unions have asked for tougher enforcement measures against them, arguing that they take jobs away from legal residents and undercut wage rates. In Texas, local school boards have refused to provide free public schooling to children who cannot prove permanent legal immigrant status for themselves or their parents. Even fellow Hispanics often turn undocumented workers over to the INS. Says Jos? Ramiriz of the Chicane Training Center in Houston: "There are mixed feelings about the undocumented in the Mexican-American community. The feeling is that they're receiving services that should be going...