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Sb-1070 considered the toughest antiimmigration law in the country and the target of a federal lawsuit by the united states justice department. even if you only had political rhetoric as your guide you know the united states is growing more diverse. in 1980 the number of those two said they were hispanic just over 14.5 million and 6% of the population but by the year 2000 that number more than doubled. the hispanic population then at over 35 million. now making up 12.5% of the population. columnist ruben naveret has been watching the census data coming in. hispanic people don't usually trust...

Jobs last month. many are census workers, a one-time thing but it's not a very strong labor market. jenna: you said the weekly number has gone down two weeks in a row. is that because people are getting hired ambassador because people are kpa*uing the benefits? >> we see that in the claims figure which did go down a little bit like the figure on weekly jobless claims. they don't break it down, it's hard to tell, but it may be even though unemployment benefits have been extended they don't last forever and people have been out of work so long they're starting to run out of benefits. the other t...

Hit in january by the increase in taxes unless something is changed, are they not hiring, laying people off. >> reporter: they are not hiring and some are laying people off. many small businesses are run like a personal business, so the income you get from it is taxed at personal income tax rates. if you're successful your tax rate on january the 1st, because you're successful, is going to go up several percentage points. that represents a huge tax increase. other taxes are going to go up as well. so you're looking down the road, you're running a successful small business, you know your cost i...

Still at 9.5%. with us now cnbc's hampton peerson to explain. thanks to the census, there's a net loss. tell us the details. >> well first of all, a net loss of census workers, they dropped out as of last month and a private sector gain of 71,000. back to the headline number, chuck, 9.5% unemployment unchanged. the reason is, frankly, fewer people actively looking for work last month and we had this big decline overall in payroll jobs of 131,000. the other thing, too, to drill down a little more on the private sector jobs, we had revisions for two months of may and june showing that essentiall...

The end. >> how do you feel when you hear some of these lawmakers and pundits who go out there and say people are lazy, people are looking for a free lunch, how does that make you feel knowing how hard you have looked for a job? >> i try not to think about it, but it does make me angry to hear when people generalize the unemployed population. i have a great college degree, i had an amazing job before i got laid off and i am -- i have good skills and so i think everyone out there who's looking for jobs has those skills and they shouldn't generalize us and say that we're lazy or we're not lookin...