Record-Breaking Unemployment Rate Swept Under Rug at Latino Nets
By Kathleen Krumhansl | March 12, 2019 4:50 PM EDT
Latino news networks in the United States exist for one sole reason: to inform Hispanics who prefer watching relevant content in Spanish. As such, it would seem only natural for major economic news directly affecting that viewership to occupy headlines on the nation’s top Spanish-language media outlets. Yet, as MRC Latino has repeatedly noted, the subject is consistently either ignored or under-reported (see here, here, here and here), with the latest example being the new record low of 4.3% for Hispanic unemployment in February 2019.
In this case, the February employment numbers released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) only caught the attention of Univision - where anchor Ilia Calderón solely reported the numbers for the general population - and CNN en Español´s Directo USA, where anchor Juan Carlos López spent under one minute on the subject, omitting the fact that ever since BLS started tracking Hispanic unemployment statistics in 1973, it had never reached such a low, simply stating that “For Hispanics the rate fell from 4.9% to 4.3%.â€
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