Latino Education and Economic Progress: Running Faster but Still Behind reveals that lagging college degree attainment has led Latinos to become stuck in the middle-wage tiers of the labor market. The report also finds that obtaining a college degree remains a challenge, with only 21% of Latinos having a bachelor’s degree.
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Latino Education and Economic Progress: Running Faster but Still Behind
1. Latino Education and
Economic Progress:
Running Faster but Still Behind
By: Anthony P. Carnevale and Megan L. Fasules
October 11, 2017
2. Overview
• Earning a college degree remains a challenge for Latinos: only 21 percent
have bachelor’s degrees, compared to 45 percent of Whites and 32 percent
of Blacks.
• Low college degree attainment has led Latinos to become caught in the
middle-wage tiers of the labor market.
• With access to better college and career counseling, Latinos can run faster
toward a promising economic future.
3. Latinos are falling behind in many crucial
college outcomes
• While Latino enrollment
has increased at two- and
four- year colleges, Latino
postsecondary attainment
has only increased from 35
percent to 45 percent.
4. Latinos have increased their share of good jobs
that require less than a bachelor’s degree
• Latinos are concentrated in occupations that require less
education and where wage growth is slowest
• Latinos hold only 9 percent of jobs which require a bachelor’s
degree and 7 percent of jobs requiring a graduate degree
6. Latinos earn on average 18 percent less than
Whites at every education level
• Latino men and women are last in the overall earnings race
compared to Whites and Blacks
• However, Latino and Black men earn similar wages if they have a
bachelor’s degree or higher
• When Latinos are employed in high-wage occupations like those
in STEM, race-based earnings gaps between Whites and Latinos
essentially vanish
8. Lack of college and career counseling and
socioeconomic barriers contribute to the earnings gap
• Latinos often start at a disadvantage because many of their
parents have not gone to college
• Country of origin and English language ability are important
sources of wage disparity between Whites and Latinos, but do
not entirely explain the wage gaps between foreign-born and
US-born Latinos
• Only 34 percent of foreign-born Latinos have some form of
postsecondary education compared to 61 percent of US-born
Latinos
9. Latina women are the lowest earning group in
America compared to Whites and Blacks
• Latina women have higher
completion rates than Latino men
at every level of postsecondary
education
• Latina women are typically in
low-paying majors, but those in
high-paying majors still have
lower earnings than Latino men
10. Conclusion
• High school graduation rates for Latinos have improved the
most since the 1990s compared to their White and Black peers
• Closing the information gap is imperative in supporting
Latinos through their educational and career pathways
• Latinos’ deliberate mass improvement in high school
graduation to success at certificate levels leaves them poised for
advances in bachelor’s and graduate degree level attainment
11. For more information:
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