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Job Loss
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The loss of construction jobs by immigrants from Latin America to a spike in unemployment among all Latino workers to 6.5 percent, compared with 4.7 percent unemployment for non-Latino workers, the report found. As recently as late 2006, Latino workers had achieved their low unemployment rate of 4.9 percent, based mainly on a job among immigrants, the report said. "To put it bluntly, Hispanics had a rough time in the labor market in 2007," said Rakesh Kochhar, the author of the report who is director for research at the Pew center, a nonpartisan organization in Washington. Job loss was particularly severe for Mexican , whose unemployment rate rose to 8.4 percent from 5.5 percent in 2007, the report found. Of 247,000 jobs lost by Latino workers in the industry in 2007.
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