Hispanics Will Account for an Increasingly Large Share of Labor Force Growth
Hispanics will account for the vast majority — 74% — of the 10.5 million workers added to the labor force between 2010 and 2020.
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Hispanics will account for the vast majority — 74% — of the 10.5 million workers added to the labor force between 2010 and 2020.
Although there have been a record number of immigrant deportations under the administration of Barack Obama, 36% of Latinos say the levels are about the same as they were during George W. Bush’s presidency.
Nearly half (46%) of unauthorized adult immigrants in the U.S. today are parents of minor children.
Nearly two-thirds (63%) of the 10.2 million unauthorized adult immigrants in the United States have lived in this country for at least 10 years.
The Census Bureau has developed an alternative measure of poverty that takes into account a wider range of factors than the official poverty measure. The alternative measure sets the poverty threshold for 2010 at $24,343, which is $2,230 higher than the official measure for a two-adult two-child family.
Roughly 18% of Americans are white Evangelical Protestants, but they make up nearly four-in-ten members of core Republican groups.
More Latino children are living in poverty — 6.1 million in 2010 — than children of any other racial or ethnic group. This marks the first time in U.S. history that the single largest group of poor children is not white.
Large numbers of Americans enacted their own anti-poverty program in the depths of the Great Recession: 51.4 million Americans lived with relatives in 2009, an increase over the 46.5 million who did so in 2007.
Spanish-language media faces challenges — such as an increasingly U.S.-born Latino population — but it still tends to fare better overall than their mainstream English-language counterparts.
As of March 2010, 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the United States, virtually unchanged from a year earlier.
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