Hispanic Unemployment Edges Up To 9.7 Percent

Hispanic Unemployment Edges Up To 9.7 Percent
A man protests against corruption holding a suitcase, reading, ''After unemployment, poverty'', in Pamplona, northern Spain on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. Spain's top prosecutor says there is sufficient cause to investigate fresh allegations of irregular financing of Spain's governing Popular Party and that if necessary Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy would be called in for questioning.(AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
A man protests against corruption holding a suitcase, reading, ''After unemployment, poverty'', in Pamplona, northern Spain on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. Spain's top prosecutor says there is sufficient cause to investigate fresh allegations of irregular financing of Spain's governing Popular Party and that if necessary Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy would be called in for questioning.(AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for Hispanics stood at 9.7 percent in January, up just slightly from 9.6 percent in December, according to numbers released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday. The rate for Hispanics in January 2012 was 10.5 percent.

There are 2.5 million idled workers in the Hispanic civilian labor force, out of a total Hispanic civilian workforce of 24 million.

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