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The latest estimate from the Census Bureau shows that median household income was unchanged from 2008 to 2009. The largest decline in income occurred for black households, a group with the highest rate of unemployment, and foreign-born non-citizen households, the group that includes unauthorized immigrants (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/2010pubs\/p60-238.pdf\">DeNavas-Walt, Proctor and Smith, 2010<\/a>).] However, foreign-born workers experienced a sharp decline in earnings during the recovery even as they managed to boost their employment. Hispanics also did not fare well\u2014their earnings fell for two years in a row\u2014and, among Hispanics, immigrants sustained the biggest cut in wages.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The median weekly earnings of all workers, full time and part time, were $624 in the second quarter of 2008 (earnings expressed in second-quarter 2010 dollars).[20. The median wage divides workers into two equal groups, with half earning more than the median wage and the other half earning less than the median.] By the end of the recession, in the second quarter of 2009, weekly earnings stood at $623. Earnings nudged upward slightly during the recovery, to $630 in the second quarter of 2010.<\/p>\n\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2817\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2010\/10\/2010-recession-12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"431\"><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the midst of overall wage stagnation, the earnings of foreign-born workers fell sharply during the recovery. Wages for immigrants did not change much in the recession, moving from $544 in 2008 to $550 in 2009. However, in the recovery from 2009 to 2010, median earnings of foreign-born workers dropped to $525, a loss of 4.5%. The earnings of native-born workers have remained flat during the recession and recovery, starting at $651 in the second quarter of 2008 and ending at $653 in the second quarter of 2010.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hispanics are the only group of workers whose median earnings decreased during both the recession and the recovery. Starting at $504 in the second quarter of 2008, the median weekly earnings of Latinos fell to $489 in the second quarter of 2009 and then to $480 in the second quarter of 2010.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The downward momentum in earnings for Latinos was led by immigrants. For immigrant Latinos, median weekly earnings dropped from $454 in 2008 to $448 in 2009, and then to $422 in 2010. 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