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A record 6.6 million Latinos voted in the 2010 midterm election, but the group’s representation remains below its share of the general population.

Hispanics now account for 16.3% of the total U.S. population.

Racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 91.7% of the nation’s population growth over the past decade.

Hispanic voters are nearly three times more prevalent in states that gained congressional seats and Electoral College votes in the 2010 reapportionment than they are in states that lost seats.

Unauthorized immigrants comprise about 4% of the U.S. adult population, but their children comprise 8% of newborns.

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.

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.

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.