“I do not study to know more, but to ignore less.” Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz · Mexico · 1691
Project 2045 · a movement to parity · Est. May 2026One in five today. Parity is the destination. 2045 is the deadline we set.
Parity is not sameness. It is the freedom to take part in this country as a full peer: the means to walk through any door, and the standing to be paid and respected in the work you choose. The share is how we measure it. Today we are 20 percent of America and hold 6 percent of its highest-paid work. By 2045 we are nearly a quarter of the country, and our share of every profession should rise to meet that line.
We feed this country, raise it, care for it, and teach it. We hold up whole industries. We run barely three percent of them. We organize across every occupation, so the pay is fair where we already stand and the doors open where they are not. Tell us your trade. This page becomes yours.
The Parity Atlas
Thirty-two indicators across economic, political, health, education, and housing power. Every number measured against parity, broken out by national origin, animated over fifty years.
Open the Atlas →Theory of Change
Project 2025 is a plan to close these doors. We open them, for us, by us.
Read the theory →Founding Membership
The Dashboard is live today. Founding members are named in the permanent record of the inaugural State of the Latino Workforce report, and shape everything the Alliance builds next.
See the program →Project 2045
They wrote Project 2025. We are writing Project 2045: a twenty-year national plan to build the doctors, lawyers, and leaders who close the gap, instead of only defending against the plan to widen it.
Read the plan →Parity is not sameness. It is participatory parity, the freedom to take part in the life of this country as a full peer.
It rests on two things. The means to participate, which is access to education, to capital, and to the door of any occupation. And the standing to participate, which is the recognition that every kind of work is worthy of respect and fair pay. Parity is reached when any person, from any origin, is free to choose their calling and is given a real chance to pursue it. We do not promise an outcome. We fight for a fair start, an open door, and equal respect for the work, whatever the work is.
The philosopher Nancy Fraser called this participatory parity, justice as the removal of every obstacle that keeps some people from taking part as equals. That is the standard we organize toward.
Parity is the freedom to pursue your calling at any altitude, and to be paid and respected for it.
There is honor in every job that holds this country up. The farmworker judges the harvest. The aide reads the patient. The laborer leads the crew. These are expert hands, equal to the surgeon's. We are not here to climb out of the work we love. We are here to make sure that whatever a person is called to do, the door is open and the pay is fair. A welder, a teacher, a nurse, a coder, a curandera, a founder: every one of them carries genius. The only thing that has ever been unequal is the chance.
Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. To him we cannot say tomorrow. His name is today.
Gabriela Mistral · Chile
There is honor in every job on this chart. The injustice is that we don't get to choose which one.
Pick any field below. At the bottom, in the hardest and most essential work this country has, we stand far above our share of the country, and we carry it with pride. At the top, in the work that holds the most pay and power, we nearly disappear. The distance between the two is not about merit or effort. It is a ceiling. Everyone deserves a fair shot at both ends, and at every rung in between.
Eight fields. Sixteen jobs. In every one, as the pay rises, our share of the work falls.
This data feeds the Latino Parity Index. The register is how you receive it.
Where each number comes from.
Representation (the % Latino): for most roles, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey 2025 annual averages, Table 11 (Hispanic share by detailed occupation). Several roles use the field's own authoritative count: physicians, AAMC Physician Workforce & Diversity 2024; attorneys, ABA Profile of the Legal Profession 2024; Fortune 500 board seats, LCDA 2024; chief executives, BLS CPS 2025. The 2025 annual figures are 11-month averages excluding October due to the federal shutdown.
Median pay: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2024 (median annual wage for that occupation).
Within each field we show the occupation with the lowest BLS median wage and the one with the highest. Shares are rounded; the two data streams are independent (pay is never inferred from representation, or the reverse).
“Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.”
Representation isn't symbolic. It shows up in the bloodwork.
When a patient and a clinician share a language or a background, the medicine measurably works better. It is peer-reviewed. The gap on this page is not abstract; it is measured in glucose, in screenings, in years of life.
Among Latino patients with limited English, the share with poorly controlled diabetes nearly halves when their doctor speaks their language.
Fernández et al., Journal of General Internal Medicine 2011. Observational study of insured Latino patients with limited English; 28 versus 16 percent poor glycemic control.
In a randomized trial in Oakland, patients seen by a doctor of the same background chose far more preventive screenings, enough to cut the Black–white male cardiovascular mortality gap by an estimated 19%.
Alsan, Garrick & Graziani, American Economic Review 2019. Randomized field experiment in Oakland with Black male patients; modeled 19 percent reduction in the cardiovascular mortality gap.
Every 10-point rise in same-background primary-care doctors in a county tracked with longer life expectancy and 12.7 fewer deaths per 100,000 for that community.
Snyder et al., JAMA Network Open 2023. County-level association study of Black primary-care representation; about 30.6 days of life expectancy per 10-point rise.
These studies cover different populations and designs. We cite them as evidence that representation has measurable stakes, not as predictions of identical effect sizes for every community.
“No one is going to have quality of life unless we support everyone's quality of life. It's our collective and personal health that's at stake.”Dr. Helen Rodríguez-Trías, first Latina president of the American Public Health Association
Medicine is the clearest case. It is not the only one.
Healthcare is easy to prove because it is measured in blood. The same stakes show up everywhere a Latino professional is missing: in graduation rates, in a courtroom, on a job site, in the fields, in wages, in the size of the economy itself.
Students assigned at least one same-background teacher in the early grades were 9 points more likely to graduate and 6 points more likely to enroll in college. The mechanism, a teacher who shares a child's world, is the one we build for.
Gershenson et al., American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2022. Randomized Project STAR data; strongest causal evidence is for Black students.
Immigrants with a lawyer were 5.5 times more likely to win relief from removal. Only 37 percent of them had one, and just 14 percent of those in detention.
Eagly and Shafer, University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2015. National study of 1.2 million removal cases; association, not causation.
Latino workers are killed on the job at a higher rate than the workforce as a whole. Construction is the deadliest field, with 410 Latino worker deaths in a single year.
BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2023.
The people who pick the country's food die of heat at roughly twenty times the rate of other American workers. The work that feeds everyone is the work least protected.
CDC, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2008. Crop workers, 1992 to 2006.
If US Latinos were a country, their output would be the fifth-largest economy in the world, ahead of India, the United Kingdom, and France. This is not a community to be carried. It is one being underused.
Latino Donor Collaborative, US Latino GDP Report 2024 (2022 data).
Latinos are 8 percent of the STEM workforce and 17 percent of all workers, one of the widest gaps of any sector. The people building the tools the country will run on do not yet look like the country.
Pew Research Center, 2021.
Different fields, different measures, different studies, each one verifiable. We cite them as evidence that representation has measurable stakes everywhere, not as identical effects for every community.
The Latino Parity Index
Ligazon is the record of where Latinos stand in every American profession. When a newsroom, a dean, or a board needs the real figure, this is where it comes from.
Once a year we publish the whole picture in one place: the Latino share of every field, set against the parity line, with the gap and an honest date for each. It is registry-first. We lead with the licensing body where one exists and footnote the survey, the same method described in our How we count notes. One number per field, sourced and checkable.
Put your field on the Index →When does each field reach parity?
Honest timelines, not slogans. Here is where each field stands today and the year parity comes within reach, when the pipeline is funded and the doors are opened.
This data feeds the Latino Parity Index. The register is how you receive it.
Construction trades, production work, and frontline policing: already above one in five. The work now is moving into ownership and leadership.
Construction management (20.1% today), dentistry, financial management, and K-12 teaching.
Nursing (10.0% today), engineering, accounting, architecture, and science.
Medicine, law, software, pharmacy, the professoriate, journalism, and corporate leadership: the furthest, and the reason to start now.
Distance is measured against the parity line: 20.0% of everyone who works in America (BLS Current Population Survey 2025, Table 11). That line is rising. Every tier here is measured, not forecast. We do not print a year of arrival, because at the current rate there is not one. 2045 is the deadline we set, not a date we predict.
Shares from BLS Current Population Survey 2025 and field-specific sources. Projections use a stock-and-flow model and are labeled as projections.
“No matter who you are or where you come from, the path is always forward.”
You have seen your number. Now walk the whole story.
Genius is not rare. Opportunity is. We exist to fix the second one. Each step is one page, built to be read in order. By the end you will see the gap, understand how it was built, feel what it costs, and know exactly how we close it.
The Gap
Sixty years of federal data. The distance between who we are and the work this country lets us do, in every state.
See the gap →Why It Happens
The cost of the credential, the pipeline that leaks, the same locked door met eight times in one life. It was built this way.
Understand why →What's at Stake
A closed door at the top of a profession is a diagnosis missed at the bottom. The cost is measured in lives, right now.
Feel the stakes →Project 2045
They wrote Project 2025. We are writing Project 2045: the twenty-year plan to close the gap, and your place in it.
See the plan →Take your place on the record.
Ninety seconds. Your field, your strengths, and where you fit. You will not be the only one again.
Be counted →Project 2025 is a plan to close these doors. We open them.
In 2025 the Heritage Foundation published Project 2025, a 900-page blueprint for the federal government. Many of its proposals would tear out the exact tools that were slowly closing the gaps you have been reading about. Our answer is simple, and it is the opposite of theirs: for every door their plan tries to shut, we open one ourselves. For us, by us.
What the 2026 crackdown costs us, in three numbers
This is not theory. The first medical-school class admitted after the 2023 affirmative-action ban is already smaller, the Justice Department has opened a fresh wave of admissions probes, and detention has hit a record, most of it of people never convicted of a crime. Here is the math, with sources.
315 fewer future doctors in a single year, a 10.8% drop in Latino M.D. matriculants in the first class admitted after SFFA. A pipeline a generation in the making, thinned in twelve months.
74.2% had no criminal conviction, the largest population the country has ever held in immigration detention, three of every four with no crime to their name.
medical schools the Justice Department put under investigation over admissions in 2026, on top of the formal findings it already issued against UCLA and Yale.
Sources: AAMC 2024 matriculation data & JAMA Network Open 2025 (Latino M.D. matriculants 2,910→2,595, −10.8%, the first class after Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 2023); TRAC Syracuse immigration data (70,766 in ICE detention as of Jan 24, 2026; 74.2% with no criminal conviction, the count moves monthly); U.S. DOJ Civil Rights Division press releases, 2026 (the additional probes were not publicly named). Figures are measured counts from these sources, not projections.
Their plan needs us to do nothing. Ours needs you to add your name.
The register is open. Pick your trade.
No tiers. No price. Four short questions, ninety seconds. We ask what you do, where you do it, and what you want to contribute. Then your name is on the founding record.
Your field's real number and what moves it.
The monthly brief, written for your trade.
Your name counted where the decisions are made.
See the full data for your field.
Every field has its own gap. We pull the occupations, the wage data, the representation ratios, and what parity actually looks like in your sector.
They wrote Project 2025. We are writing Project 2045.
Detention deaths, mass deportation, a trillion dollars cut from Medicaid, a courtroom campaign against the schools that train our doctors: this is one coordinated plan to decide our future for us. We refuse to only defend against it. While that plan spends the decade dismantling, we spend it training the doctors, lawyers, teachers, and founders who make the next America impossible to erase. The data is where we start, not where we stop. A child in first grade today will be twenty-six in 2045. The work we do now decides what that year looks like for them.
Collect
Pull the federal data into one public ledger.
Find
Show exactly where the gaps are, field by field.
Measure
Track each gap against parity, every quarter.
Unite
Bring together the people in every trade who can move it.
Act
Open doors, fund the pipeline, and close the gap for good.
“We have a responsibility toward future generations. We need to leave them an environment where they can have a standard of living at least as good as the one we have now.”
The numbers are public. The plan is plain. What we need now is each other.
Add your nameThe data is live. The register is open. The 2045 we inherit depends on the moves we make now.
The farmworker and the surgeon. The home-health aide and the senator. The line cook and the CEO. Every Latino who works in this country, in every trade and at every level, named on the same register, with the same pipeline behind it: a culturally rooted, nationwide peer-tutoring network that moves us through every credential, in small cohorts, person to person.
We are not asking for a seat. We are setting a longer table, and there is a place at it for every trade and every tongue. The future is not something that happens to us. It is something we are already making.
It is the founding year. Be one of the first one hundred names on the register.