About a fifth of U.S. adults moved due to COVID-19 or know someone who did
37% of those ages 18 to 29 say they moved, someone moved into their home or they know someone who moved because of the outbreak.
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37% of those ages 18 to 29 say they moved, someone moved into their home or they know someone who moved because of the outbreak.
The U.S. Hispanic population reached a record 60.6 million in 2019, up 930,000 over the previous year and up from 50.7 million in 2010.
From 2010 to 2019, the U.S. population increased by 18.9 million, and Hispanics accounted for more than half of this growth.
Around half of Hispanics say they or someone in their household has taken a pay cut or lost a job – or both – because of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The drop in employment in three months of the COVID-19 recession is more than double the drop effected by the Great Recession over two years.
91% of Democrats favor granting legal status to immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children; 54% of Republicans say the same.
90% of the decrease in employment between February and March arose from positions that could not be teleworked.
Those who have not responded to the census so far are likely to be from groups the census previously has struggled to count accurately.
More than half of foreign-born Latinos describe themselves using the name of their origin country, versus 39% among U.S.-born adult children of immigrants.
Nationwide, 58% of Cuban registered voters say they affiliate with or lean toward the Republican Party, while 38% identify as or lean Democratic.
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