Hispanics In America

Here in the United States many would like to believe that there is only one main group and a lot of minorities. Well those people are wrong and here is the reason why. A once major minority group known as the Hispanics have come up as not only a large part of the United States population but a huge economic help as well. “Hispanics now make up eighteen percent of the total population” as said by nbcnews.com and even cnn.com. They have also stated that, “Hispanics will contribute over two trillion dollars to the U.S. economy.”
Some small town places may not see that many Hispanic people but they are around a lot more than you may think. Hispanics have come to try to contribute to the American dream as much as they can by getting a higher education

and joining the workforce. Since the median age of Hispanics in the workforce is twenty-eight years old this shows that Hispanic college graduates from the ages of eighteen to twenty-four are getting jobs shortly after college mainly due to student debts and loans from when they were in college. Some may argue that this is not only Hispanics. Well they are right but our leading population in the workforce here in the U.S. are Hispanic citizens. So that means not only is the generations right now lead over the workforce but soon more Hispanics will have control over more jobs and businesses here in the United States. This is the reason that Hispanics are continuing to contribute towards the economy more than any other population. The people of the United States really need to see how much of a benefit they are providing for us in the economy. As the Hispanic population continues to grow so will their influence over the economy and how much of people’s everyday lives they will affect.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if a certain race or population made their own country and how big they would be?

Well researchers have put information out that if Hispanics in the United States alone would make their own country they would be the seventh largest in the world just behind countries like France and India. To have such a huge amount of a population here in the United States should make people think of what would happen if we used such a high labor force that is basically untouched and give them the education needed to succeed. It would not only fill in the gaps of certain jobs but even have the possibility of having more jobs being made for every other population group here in the United States by more businesses being built and opened just in our very borders. Even those born or alive during the Baby Boom era are starting to retire and the main population group that can replace those retiring, even in the jobs nobody wants, are the Hispanics. Hispanics are known to work longer hours than any other population group which, in turn, makes them a valuable workforce.
The only reason that they are a valuable workforce is because even with them working longer hours they also work harder than others as well. The funny thing about this information is that most people believe that the Hispanics who take those jobs are non-U.S. citizens. Well that is not true because non-U.S. citizens have the lowest workforce participation rates in the United States. Legal U.S.

Hispanic citizens have the highest participation rates in the workforce which leads by more than triple the percentages of the white citizens here in the United States and leaves them basically in their dust.
What is also making Hispanics in such high demand in the workforce is how many are now finally earning higher educations and allowing themselves to have their own businesses, companies, or even just higher paying jobs. These students are getting out of college at the age of twenty-four and doing what is best not only for them but the next generations as well. In years passed Hispanics were only given the most back breaking jobs due to their lack of education. Now times have changed and even though Hispanics are only earning about fifty-five to seventy-five cents of what the non-Hispanic white U.S. citizens are making they are slowly earning toward equality in the workplace. Hispanics have earned this equality by forever changing the lifestyles of Hispanics slowly by continuing to obtain an education and continuing to grow in a positive way for the U.S. economy. Some Hispanic leaders are arguing that President Donald Trump’s laws on immigration are going to affect how well the Hispanic population is growing and even thriving.
That is not even a main consideration anymore for the Hispanics here in the United States.

The only reason this is so is because the young generation of the Hispanics is always growing for the better and providing more reason for the next generation to continue off where the elders left off from. This is why many reports say that by the year 2020 Hispanics will still be thriving and contribute even more for the economy and pay back towards the nation as well. Hispanics are not only taking local jobs around the nation but they are even taking jobs that are through the government and making up for a lot of those work

forces.
The government jobs that Hispanics are taking are the jobs and positions in the U.S. military. The biggest group out of our military that they make up for is the marines, then next is the Army, then the Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard. The percentages that the Hispanics make up in the military are: 25.7 percent, 22.2 percent, 15.2 percent, 13.9 percent and 13.7 percent. Many Hispanics believe by joining the military that it will be their main way of repaying the United States for allowing them to be a part of the American dream. The American Dream is what all born citizens and immigrants in the United States want to strive for. This, I believe, is what gives Hispanics a lot of their drive to continue to grow even with the misconceptions against them.
Hispanics see how other people are making it through the hard times and they so desperately want that for themselves and now they go to get their education and get their dream jobs to do what their ancestors could not. This will allow them to work towards a better tomorrow where they are close to having equality and doing what is needed. This will include them working longer hours or harder than the other person. This ethic will not only help them in the long run but future Hispanic generations as well. This has started to scare other population groups because Hispanics have become the juggernaut force in the United States and it leads them to ask questions. Some of these questions consist of, “What will happen if Trump’s laws slowly wear down on the Hispanic population?”, “What would happen if they wanted to leave to take what they learned back to their home country?” and others wonder if future generations will continue on with the work that their fathers have done before them.
Only time will tell for these questions but the U.S. Economy really needs to take into consideration on what we have here in the United States for us to be able to fully continue to thrive and succeed. By seeing how much the Hispanics have been through from when they first started to immigrate into the country by basically being forced to only work the most back breaking jobs to now earning a higher education that was not even offered to their ancestors before them and to finally start working to the benefit of not only themselves as a group but to all of the United States shows hope for what we could actually become if we grow together as a country and finally being able to benefit for the minority groups such as the Hispanics to help them finally have what everyone strives for in their lifetime that we can finally get rid of minority groups or at least work towards that. Researchers have stated that now that Hispanics are able to be more involved in the United States they finally can see that their hard work and their families hard work from the past to this day in age has finally paid off and they will continue to work towards what they have always believed in.