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Hispanic Unemployment Below General Market
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
The Pew Hispanic Center released a new report earlier this month that is consistent with some of my earlier posts (Hispanics present a promising alternative to the overleveraged consumer and Unemployment decreases among Hispanics) about the resiliency of the Hispanic market vis-a-vis the general market.
According to the Pew Hispanic Center’s “Unemployment Rises Sharply Among Latino [...]
Hispanics present a promising alternative to the overleveraged consumer
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
I just wrote a piece for MediaPost’s EngageHispanic newsletter looking at how the Hispanic consumer will fare vis-Ã -vis the broader consumer market as we work through this massive deleveraging.
You can read the piece by clicking here.
Tough Times for Old Media (and New?)
Monday, January 12th, 2009
Over at Silicon Alley Insider has a link to an article following up on the impending demise of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The article discusses the P-I and other old media properties in trouble:
The most endangered of the media sectors is the newspaper industry. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Denver’s Rocky Mountain News have already been [...]
Unemployment decreases among Hispanics
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
In another sign that the economic downturn is concentrated in particular sectors of the economy, the unemployment rate among Hispanics declined last month.
Contacto magazine reports that according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, while nonfarm payroll employment fell sharply (-533,000) in November, and the unemployment rate rose from 6.5 to 6.7 percent in the [...]
New Years Resolutions for Hispanic Marketers
Friday, December 12th, 2008
As 2009 quickly approaches us, I figured I would get a head start on setting some resolutions for the New Year. For the Hispanic marketing and advertising industry, 2009 figures to be a year full of old threats and new life, slowdowns and growth, and ultimately challenges and opportunities. The macro-economic picture looks unstable, there [...]
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