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<h4>The Role of the Office of Personnel Management</h4>
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<p>The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) knows that Hispanics are underrepresented in the Federal workforce. However, with an 8.1% Hispanic representation government wide, and Hispanic new hires doubling in the Senior Executive Service to 5.4%, we are moving in the right direction.</p>

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<p align="justify">Long lines snake through the halls at the San Diego Marriot. Women dressed in suits and men wearing ties, all holding on to their resumes and hopes of finding a job.</p>
<p align="justify">This is a job fair with 17 companies and schools, including the army and the Border Patrol, seeking to find new recruits, amongst people looking for a career or a career change.</p>

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<p align="justify">Las filas para entrar serpentean por los pasillos del hotel. Las mujeres en traje sastre y hombres de corbata desfilan por entre los puestos de reclutamiento en busca de trabajo.</p>
<p align="justify">Esta es una feria de trabajo en la que 17 empresas y escuelas entre ellas las fuerzas armadas y la Patrulla Fronteriza, que ofrecen oportunidades para jóvenes y viejos en busca de un trabajo una carrera.</p>

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<p><strong>America’s Voice</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Mientras Barack Obama hablaba ante el Congreso y la nación de la urgencia de aprobar su plan de creación de empleos y las cámaras mostraban la reacción de algunos líderes republicanos que prefieren que el barco se hunda antes de colaborar con este presidente, imaginé qué pasaría si tras las próximas elecciones generales amanecemos con un presidente republicano y ambas cámaras bajo control republicano.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; “When I grow up, I want to be a supply chain analyst.”</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; You don’t hear these words too often—but I’m hoping that changes fast.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; When I was a child, my siblings and I would sit around the kitchen table and tell our parents about the jobs we might hold as adults. My mother bought me a bag with bandages and a toy thermometer. I wanted to be a nurse.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Two years ago this week, 4.5 million of America’s workers enjoyed a modest pay increase, as the federal minimum wage rose from $6.55 to $7.25 an hour. The increase was the final of a three-step boost enacted in 2007. Of those getting a bump in pay, more than three-quarters were adults, nearly two-thirds were women, and nearly half a million were single parents with children under 18.</p>