Hispanics earn less than Whites and Asians no matter what their specific undergraduate major, with few exceptions.

A new study confirms that Hispanics make less—in some cases, much less—than their White and Asian counterparts, no matter what their undergraduate major. Even in one of the highest-paying majors for Hispanics, Chemical Engineering, Hispanics make $36,000 less than their White counterparts.

Using United States Census data available for the first time is helping Americans connect the dots between college majors and career earnings. In the new report,

Many low-skilled Latino workers, who make up a large share of the low-wage job market, are employed in substandard jobs where they earn below-poverty wages, are denied health and retirement benefits, and are refused paid leave, according to a study by National Council of La Raza (NCRL).

Latinos currently make up 15 percent of the U.S. workforce and are estimated to become 33 percent of the total population by 2050—they are the largest and fastest-growing segment of the American workforce. Latino workers fuel vital American fields, making up one in five workers in the food manufacturing and services,...

An interesting article published by the Migration Policy Institute examines the racialization of those who make up the “Hispanic, Latino or Spanish Origin” category on census forms.

Written by UC Irvine sociologist Rubén Rumbaut, a veteran chronicler of the immigrant experience, the piece delves into the history of racial and ethnic classifications, and on the impact that what began as an administrative move to classify people of Latin American ancestry has had on how they now define themselves in terms of race.

Rumbaut writes:

Are Hispanics a “race” or, more precisely, a racialized category? In fact, are they even a “they?” Is there a...

Tablets may have more glamour -- but e-readers are proving more popular so far this year, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. The number of U.S. adults owning an e-reader has doubled from 6 percent to 12 percent between November 2010 and May 2011, while tablet penetration during that period has increased only from 5 percent to 8 percent.

And despite the release of scores of new tablet models in 2011, tablet ownership since January has only inched up from 7 percent to 8 percent.

A new study finds that foreign-born Hispanics living in the U.S. experience significantly less stress than American-born Hispanics.

The study, published in Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, concludes that in addition to education and income disparities, higher levels of chronic stress among Hispanics and African-Americans leads to worse health outcomes in those populations.

But foreign-born Hispanics showed lower levels of stress, similar to whites, while American-born Hispanics showed higher levels of stress, similar to African-Americans, the study showed.

Participants answered questions about job satisfaction, financial...