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Earlier this week. Latin Post reported that Latinas are more worried in terms of health insurance, job opportunities, and housing compared to women from other races or ethnic groups. The data presented in the report also shows that the number of Latinas who are worried is above the accounted overall data of all women.

Moreover, women play a vital role in the U.S. economy, because many Latinas excel in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The success of Latinas who excelled in STEM was even celebrated during the Hispanic Heritage Month.

In a report from Bloomberg, Mayra Macias, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, who went on to graduate from Yale University and now works as an executive director of the Latino Victory Project where she works to elect progressive Hispanics to political office. She is now one of the 12 million Hispanic women who are part of the U.S. labor pool. 

According to a report from U.S. Jobs Trounce Forecasts for November that 61 percent of Latinas are now participating in the labor force which is higher compared to the 59 percent national rate of females across the country. This means that there is a rise in women who want to have a job in the U.S. 

Meanwhile, behind the restriction of Trump's administration to cut down the numbers of immigrants in the country, it is very evident in the statistics that the U.S. economy relies on migrants and their children towards the U.S. labor force. 

According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics that Hispanic and Latinas are expected to play very important roles in the years to come. It is forecasted that 9.2 percent of the total labor force in the U.S. will be composed of Latinas. Meanwhile, Latinas have a very significant contribution this year on which they accumulate 7.5 percent of the labor workforce. 

A researcher from Evercore ISI in Washington Ernie Tedeschie said the rise of educational attainment and the possible shift of cultural norms in Hispanic families are also driving Latina workforce engagement. Yai Vargas, founder of The Latinista, who came from America to the Dominican Republic has worked her way through college and has earned enough money to let her move into an apartment. At present, she is helping women of different colors on how to boost and develop their careers.

Having a higher degree of education is very vital in the working place. Most of the time, the one who gets promoted are those who are qualified based on their educational attainment. Fortunately, it was observed that Hispanic women with college degrees have doubled in the past 10 years to 4.8 million and the enrollment data of Latinas who are pursuing graduate degrees are very significant. 

Since 2008, Hispanic women who have obtained degrees were estimated to be around 2.4 million. While Trump's administration planned to cut down the number of immigrants every year, itis believed that it will not help the United States economically. According to the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that immigration is a key input to higher rates of growth.

The director of U.S. research at the Migration Policy Institue in Washington Randy Capps said that without the immigrants and their children, the labor force of America will surely shrink. However, despite the educational degree and labor market gains of the Hispanics, it is still observed that their median weekly earning is somehow low compared to other groups especially to their wither counterparts.