Year in Review: Latinos in the News

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!

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Latinos reach 50.5 million in U.S.

Latinos accounted for half of the population growth in the country in the past decade, according to Census figures release early in the year and nearly a quarter of kids 17 and under. That means the future of the U.S. is indisputably brown.

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