short readsSep 10, 2008 Hispanic Student Growth The increase in Hispanic students in the nation’s public schools accounts for 60% of the total growth in public school enrollment from 1990 to 2006.
short readsSep 19, 2007 Lowest Paid Latino Immigrants That’s the percentage of foreign-born Latino workers in the lowest fifth of the wage distribution in 2005 — a decline from 42% in 1995.
short readsSep 18, 2006 Newcomers in the Illegal Workforce That’s the number of unauthorized workers currently in the U.S. labor market who arrived after 2000. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that these workers constitute about 35% of the total 7.2 million unauthorized workers now in the United States.