U.S. Latinos among hardest hit by pay cuts, job losses due to coronavirus
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.
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Hispanics more likely than Americans overall to see coronavirus as a major threat to health and finances
Hispanics are more concerned than Americans overall about the threat COVID-19 poses to Americans’ health, their own finances and daily life.
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Naturalized Citizens Make Up Record One-in-Ten U.S. Eligible Voters in 2020
Since 2000, the size of the immigrant electorate has nearly doubled. More than 23 million U.S. immigrants will be eligible to vote in the 2020 presidential election.
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Where Latinos have the most eligible voters in the 2020 election
Latinos are expected for the first time to be the nation’s largest racial or ethnicity minority in a U.S. presidential election.
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Mapping the 2020 Latino electorate
More than 32 million Latinos are eligible to vote nationwide in the 2020 presidential elections. See how the share of Latino voters varies by state and congressional district.
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In a rising number of U.S. counties, Hispanic and black Americans are the majority
In a growing number of U.S. counties, a majority of residents are Hispanic or black, reflecting the nation’s changing demographics.
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Hispanic women no longer account for the majority of immigrant births in the U.S.
Much of the downturn in the share of immigrant births to Hispanics has been driven by a decline in births among Mexican-origin women.
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College faculty have become more racially and ethnically diverse, but remain far less so than students
Around a quarter of college faculty in the U.S. were nonwhite in fall 2017, compared with 45% of students.
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A view of the nation’s future through kindergarten demographics
In 18 states and the District of Columbia, Latino children accounted for at least 20% of public school kindergarten students in 2017.
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The most common age among whites in U.S. is 58 – more than double that of racial and ethnic minorities
The most common age was 11 for Hispanics, 27 for blacks and 29 for Asians as of last July. Multiracial Americans were by far the youngest racial or ethnic group.
