As workers and consumers, Mexican Americans are a viable—and valuable—part of the broad U.S. economy. Despite that many are hindered by low education (and consequently low wages) and limited
A useful teaching tool, especially for people who are not familiar with economic indicators . . . From Congress' Immigration Act of 1999 to unique health care needs, Gonzalez covers the bases on what impacts Mexican-Americans economically. His use of recent data in concise, analytical chapters makes Mexican Americans and the U.S. Economy an easy and informative read.
—NationalJournal.com
Recommend[ed] highly for its concise history of immigration laws . . . A very readable, eye-opening book on border demographics.
—Southwest Book Views
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opportunities, they have continuously struggled for, and continue to seek, better days and the opportunity to realize their share of the American dream. This book examines the problems that
Mexican Americans have experienced in attaining economic parity with non-Hispanic whites. It examines four major topics of particular concern to the economic status of the Mexican American community:
- immigration, reviewing the Bracero Program, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, legislation from the 1990s, and the problems faced by immigrants today - education, stressing the
importance of economic incentives to invest in education - wealth and poverty, evaluating opportunities and roadblocks as Mexican Americans aspire to middle-class standards of living - the labor
market, covering such topics as employment, income, and discrimination. Arturo González has drawn on recent census data to present for the first time in one volume a detailed economic analysis of
three generations of Mexican Americans. These statistics reveal a people who are steadily improving economically and provide evidence that stereotypes of Mexican Americans are outdated or erroneous.
Mexican Americans and the U.S. Economy shows that economics is an important aspect of the Mexican American experience. The book helps broaden students' understanding of the community's ongoing
struggle, putting the quest for buenos días in clearer perspective.
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