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CLEVELAND FEATURED STORIES
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Con su revolucionario genero de música una mixtura tropical-urbano.....Read more
Being a Puerto Rican myself, I have had my fair share of mistaken ethnic identity by curious inquirerers. I can see why they would be confused. Mexicans and Puerto Ricans make.....
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The number of Hispanic Ohioans in the civilian labor force is more than 143,000. Hispanic Ohioans have an unemployment rate of 16.0 percent. Hispanics between the ages of 25 and 64 have an unemployment rate of 14.0 percent while Hispanics between the ages of 20 and 24 have an unemployment rate of 21.8 percent. The Hispanic immigrant community tended to have a lower unemployment rate than the Ohio Hispanic community taken as a whole. Employed Hispanics are heavily represented in service and production/transportation occupations compared to the state as a whole. Of the nearly 121,000 employed, 26 percent are in service occupations with 13,500 employed in food services. Production and transportation occupations account for 19 percent with 14,300 Hispanic Ohioans involved with production.