21. Robert Fernandez, who serves on multiple local and state community boards, including the state Board of Higher Education, faults Hispanic families and public-school curriculums. 22. Rising real estate prices and taxes have forced old Hispanic families to trade their adobe houses in the center of the city for trailers on its edge. 23. The Hispanic families, for instance, have never stopped believing they were cheated out of sacred land. 24. The Hispanic family, very close-knit, has to be encouraged to promote church careers for their sons and daughters. 25. The highest percentages of Hispanic family households made up of five or more people were in Queens, where one in four family households were that size. 26. The Hispanic dropout rate remains higher than that of other ethnic groups, the wages of Hispanic families lag behind other groups and the unemployment rate remains high. 27. The reason they and almost every Hispanic family here are being uprooted is the closing of the chicken plant. 28. The study examined current national data, distributed a survey to Latino child welfare service providers and interviewed focus groups of Hispanic families. 29. The traditionally lower per capita income of Hispanic families restrained advertisers. 30. Years later he was to write about his hometown in a trilogy of plays dealing with three generations of a Hispanic family. |