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01 May 08
My BookmarksGreat, jobs becoming scarcer, money becoming scarcer, let's get the word out all over Latin and South America that it's expensive to live in the U.S.A. and the prospects are shrinking. On anther note, I find it interesting how it is that we're told all t
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Latino immigrants said they stopped sending money to their families because life is becoming more difficult for them here. Of those interviewed, 81 percent said it was harder to find a good-paying job. Almost 40 percent said they were earning less this year. The largest group of immigrants in the survey, 18 percent, worked in construction, which has been especially hard hit in the slowdown.==(...)==The families of an estimated 3.2 million immigrants who would lose income because they would no longer receive transfers from the United States were among the poorest in the region, and the majority were in Mexico, said Terry, the bank official.
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three million Latin American immigrants in the United States,
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18.9 million Latino immigrants in this country now send money regularly to relatives in their home countries,
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sign of pressures on Latino immigrants as a result of the slump in the low-wage job market and of the Bush administration's crackdown on illegal immigration,
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total remittances to Latin America at $45.9 billion in 2008,
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Despite the worsening conditions in the United States, 69 percent of the immigrants in the survey said their financial situation was good or excellent compared with their prospects at home.
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