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Minority women are winning the jobs race in a record economic expansion

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Surprising economists, Hispanic women are emerging as the biggest job market winners in an economy that has now grown for 121 straight months, according to The New York Times.

Employment rates for Hispanic women between the working ages of 25 and 54 are up 2.2 percentage points since mid-2007 – the most of any prime-age working group. Black women came in second, adding 1.6 percentage points – signaling a shift in economic and social trends that have kept minority women from making job gains.

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