The New Multicultural Economy: 2014-2015 Trends

The fuel behind the American Economy has changed as Multicultural segments continue to drive the growth of overall U.S. employment while White Non-Hispanics drop off the labor rosters. In fact, over a third of the U.S. labor force is now Multicultural, but more importantly, the entire increase in U.S. employment rosters since 2007 pre-recession levels has been generated by Multicultural segments. And, the future gets even more dynamic when one considers that the labor force participation rate for White Non-Hispanics is the only whose decline has accelerated in the last 3 years while that among Hispanics and African Americans has stabilized. Why does this matter to marketers?