The Washington Post published an article by N.C. Aizenman titled, "Nearly 25 Percent of Children Younger Than 5 are Latino, Census Says" that focuses on estimates released by the US Census documenting the continued growth among Hispanics. This article is of particular importance because it relates to a segment of the Hispanic population that will be growing up in the United States, and be more informed as to the attitudinal behaviors of political parties towards Hispanics.
The increase from almost one in five in 2000 has broad implications for governments, communities and schools nationwide, suggesting that the meteoric rise in the Hispanic population that demographers forecast for mid-century will occur even sooner among younger generations.
"Hispanics have both a larger proportion of people in their child-bearing years and tend to have slightly more children," said Jeffrey S. Passel, senior demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center and co-author of a recent study predicting that the Latino population will double from 15 percent today to 30 percent by 2050.
In other news Reuters published an article titled. "U.S. Hispanic population hits 45.5 million" that talks about the overall growth of the Hispanic population.
Hispanics surpassed blacks as the largest U.S. minority in 2003 and continued to widen the gap by growing at nearly three times the pace of the black population, Census Bureau figures showed.
The Hispanic population grew by 1.4 million in the year ending July 1, 2007, while the black population grew by 540,000 to reach a total of 40.7 million, the agency said in a report on minority populations in the United States.
Sixteen states had a Hispanic population of more than 500,000. California was the largest at 13.2 million, followed by Texas at 8.6 million and Florida at 3.8 million.
Also the New York Times published an article by Julia Preston titled "Fewer Latino Immigrants Sending Money Home" focusing on the increasing problems that the economic downturn in the U.S. is causing in the hemisphere. NDN has been making the case over the past few months that with the growing Hispanic population fueled by immigration, the United States can longer regard bilateral relations with Latin American as a purely foreign policy issue. As the Hispanic population continues to grow both domestically and in Latin America, there will be an increased demand for social, economic and political coordination.
"The longstanding pattern of increasing numbers of Latin American immigrants sending increasing amounts of money back home has stopped," said Donald F. Terry, the general manager of the Multilateral Investment Fund at the development bank and the official in charge of the survey. The survey was conducted in Spanish from Feb. 9 to 23, with a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 1 percentage point.
With lower income and less job security, Latino immigrants said they were spending or saving their money here rather than sending it to support children, spouses and parents at home.
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