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Year in Review: Latinos in the News
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For Latinos, it’s been a great year (we are now the largest minority in the country!) and it’s been a bad year (immigration laws and deportations galore). As we say goodbye to 2011, here’s a look back at the biggest stories for our community. To a better 2012!
Census Shows White Babies Now the Minority
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For the first time, minorities make up a majority of babies in the U.S., part of a sweeping race change and a growing age divide between mostly white, older Americans and predominantly minority youths that is set to reshape everything from American culture to government policies.
The findings, based on the latest government data, offer a preview of final 2010...
What You Need to Know: 2010 Census Results & Immigration Laws in the U.S.
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Back when Arizona first passed SB 1070 in the summer of 2010, we decided to look into the similar laws that were sweeping across the country at the time. Now with the 2010 census results in, we updated the map to get a side-by-side look at the immigration laws as they...
Census 2010: 1 in 6 Americans is Latino
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The 2010 Census’ final population count is in, showing that we now number 50.5 million or 16 percent of the U.S. population, up 43 percent from 2000. Those numbers account for more than half of the growth of the country’s population in a decade that saw an aging white population, according to the findings, part of the Census bureau’s first set of national –level findings...
Census 2010: New Mexico is the Most Latino State, North Dakota is the Least
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Census results are being released today, along with the totals for the Latino population growth! The Census bureau has been sharing the results on a state-by-state basis, but today will be our first real look at what the numbers mean on a larger national scale.
So far, we know that the most Latino state in the union is New Mexico, with 46.3 percent of their entire...
CENSUS 2010: Latino Population Growth Outpaces Estimates
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A new Pew Hispanic Center study of the recently released 2010 Census results shows that the growth of the Latino community in the United States outpaced all of the previous estimates. Out of the thirty-three states for which the census bureau has released a count of the Latino population,...
Census Data Show Immigrants Moving to Suburbs
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It used to be that immigrants flocked almost exclusively to large cities. No more. According to current census data, new arrivals are hitting suburbia and small towns in bigger numbers for the first time ever.
Why? In a word, jobs. Growth in the food and construction industries is happening not in already developed cities, but rather in places that are still...
The Final Countdown: The 2010 Census
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To be counted or not to be counted? That’s the question facing millions of Latinos as the 2010 Census forms are mailed out starting this month. What we decide will move billions of dollars and could shift the balance of power in Congress. It’s no surprise then, that most of this year’s Census news is all about us—from a raging controversy over whether any Latinos should...
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