Essay On Latino Entrepreneurship

Both of my parents made the ultimate sacrifice for my future; they left behind the only life they knew in a relentless search for prosperity. They arrived with little more than the clothes on their backs and the willingness to work, a privilege they were not granted in their home countries. My whole life I grew up with the value that hard work is good; if someone came to this country to work hard, there was no fault in that. My belief was shared in my community, which was more than half Latino, this notion was strongly ingrained in myself and my peers. In the past decade, the United States has seen a surge of Latino immigrants as a whole. Americans all around the country have been alarmed. Many have made bold accusations, saying Latino immigrants …show more content…
Latino entrepreneurship is an aspect of Latino immigration that is often overlooked and underappreciated in the media. “Latino immigrants have exceeded the country’s overall entrepreneurship rate, the survey found, and are more likely to start new businesses than the U. S. population overall” (Encarnacion para. 5). How is that for irony? The same people whom many Americans claim are stealing jobs are actually creating them. Latino entrepreneurship has already in the proven to be an amazing supplement to the United States’ economy, “Latinos accounted for nearly half—46 percent—of the growth in employment from 2011 to 2015.” (Eisenach 1). Even further than that, Latino entrepreneurs may even helped cushion the 2009 recession, “ During the recent recession, the number of Latino entrepreneurs increased by over 70 percent …. If these entrepreneurs had not been motivated to make their own opportunities during hard times, the unemployment rate in the U.S. could have topped 10 percent.” (Encarnacion para.12). Latino entrepreneurship is projected to create more jobs as the years progress, Boosting the economy more and