However, these are figures for the Latino community as a whole. Perez emphasized that the study showed the need to invest in Latino workers to make sure that we enhance the quality of the low-wage market and give people the opportunity to move up the economic ladder. The biggest point is that Latinos are a very active part of the U.S. work force. And because of their increasing population and the fact that they tend to be a young population, they're going to be an even more critical component of the work force in the future. We wanted to underscore that Latinos are participating in the labor force at a high rate.
Men are especially likely to be working.
They continue to contribute economically to the growth of the United States. This is really important because we're starting to see the payoff to our education. Part of the problem is that we continue to enter the labor force at the low end of the labor market. We get into the work force and then we get stuck. This is particularly true for Latino men.