“The Changing Pathways of Hispanic Youths Into Adulthood”

Young Latino adults in the U.S. are more likely to be in school or the work force now than their counterparts were in previous generations. In 1970, 77 percent of Hispanics ages 16 to 25 were either working, going to school or serving in the military; by 2007, 86 percent of Latinos in this coming-of-age group were taking part in these skill-building endeavors, according to a comprehensive analysis of four decades of Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.

The report presents a comprehensive analysis of the basic activities or pathways of Hispanic, white and black youths ages 16 to 25. Despite the increases, it finds that Hispanic youths lagged behind white youths in 2007 by about the same gap that their counterparts trailed whites in 1970.
 

Read the report.