To: Brumar89 who wrote (614428 ) 6/2/2011 9:03:50 PM From: tejek Respond to Hey, if you're okay with it, its fine by me."Currently, large disparities mark socioeconomic conditions among Texas’ ethnic groups. Compared with their Anglo counterparts, Texas’ Hispanics tend to have lower levels of education, have lower wages and depend more on state services. This is partly a result of immigration—Mexican immigrants tend to have average wages 40 percent below those of natives.[7] These wage differences reflect that the immigrants are young, have scant job experience and speak little English. this implies that Texas’ future population could be less educated, less competitive, poorer and more in need of state services such as health care and welfare. Texas’ challenge is to reduce these socioeconomic differences through increased educational attainment and training, so Texas can compete in the nation’s workforce in coming decades. dallasfed.org
