
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, April 11, 1991                   TAG: 9104110667
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

HISPANICS BETTER OFF, BUT STILL TRAIL MOST

The nation's Hispanics made small steps out of poverty and the unemployment lines and toward a better-educated population during the economic recovery of the 1980s, the Census Bureau says.

But it also says that large segments of the fast-growing U.S. Latino population are poor, unemployed, uneducated and shut out of the best jobs.

The Census Bureau's portrait Wednesday of the nation's 22.4 million Hispanics, when compared with the non-Hispanic population, shows large gaps: 21 percent of Hispanic children are poor, compared with 11 percent of all U.S. children; 26.6 percent of the total Hispanic population is poor, compared with 11.6 percent of non-Hispanics.

-Associated Press

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