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June 30, 2008

Did You Know? None of the major Latino organizations-NALEO, LULAC, National Council of La Raza (NCLR), MALDEF, Southwest Voter Registration (leaders of SVREP have, however, taken positions) have come out against the Iraq war.

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Did You Know? More than 1,000 miles from the Mexican border, Chicago is home to about 800,000 people of Hispanic origin, mostly Mexican.

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June 26, 2008

Did You Know? Sol Trujillo CEO of Telstra is one of the chairmen of John McCain’s National Hispanic Advisory Board

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June 23, 2008

Did You Know? Only 2 percent of the New Hampshire’s foreign-born population comes from Mexico

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June 19, 2008

Did You Know? Nearly half of the graduating Hispanic student population did not pass the Utah Basic Skills and Competency Test in 2008

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Did You Know? Hispanic Boomers say they will spend an average of about $2,700 on household items in the next 12 months, about 25% more than General Market Boomers.

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June 18, 2008

Did You Know? Criminal prosecutions of immigrants by federal authorities surged to a record high in March 2008, as immigration cases accounted for the majority — 57% — of all new federal criminal cases brought nationwide that month

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June 17, 2008

Did You Know? 1 million new Latino voters turned out in California alone for the Democratic primary

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Did You Know? A report found that Hispanics made up 32% of the California’s general population but only 5% of its practicing physicians.

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June 16, 2008

Did You Know? Raul Alarcon Sr. was a communications pioneer in Cuba, he founded his first radio station on the island in the early 1950s. When he came to the U.S. in 1960, he left behind a network of 14 stations that had been seized by Fidel Castro’s government.

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Did You Know? Obama voted to authorize construction of a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexican border.

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June 12, 2008

Did You Know? In 2006, there were an estimated one million children on the island of Puerto Rico. This represents a larger child population than that of about half of the states in the United States.

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Did You Know? The social security database e-verify uses has a 4 percent error rate, though Shuler claims the overall system has an error rate of half a percent. Both of those numbers sound insignificant. Iowa Republican Steve King says “The accuracy of the e-verify system is remarkable!” and “almost perfect!” But 4 percent of 153 million workers is 6,120,000. (Half a percent is 765,000.) That’s a lot of people who will have to wrangle with the federal government before showing up at the office.

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June 11, 2008

Did You Know? Tuesday, the U.S. House authorized spending $1.6 billion over the next three years to help Mexico and other countries counter growing drug violence, including $74 million for the Justice Department to stem the flow of guns south. Funding, however, will have to come separately.

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Did You Know? Hispanic-Americans were also 44% more likely than the total US population to be influenced by the Internet.

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Did You Know? Connecticut election officials and Hispanic organizations are kicking off a statewide effort to register at least 10,000 new Latino voters.

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Did You Know? In previous years, English-dominant second- and third-generation Latinos were the likely voters. Now, almost half of Hispanic voters are foreign-born. NDN, a progressive Democratic group, estimates that about eight out of 10 Hispanics speak Spanish at home.

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June 9, 2008

Did You Know? Nationwide, about 20 percent of students were Hispanic in 2006, the latest year for which figures were available for ethnic groups, up from 11 percent in the late 1980s.

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Did You Know? With regard to the ethnicity of US adult bloggers, BIGresearch found that 69.7% were white, 20% were Hispanic, 12.2% were African-American and 3.7% were Asian.

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Obama did not fare well against Hillary Clinton among Hispanics in the 2008 primaries, but the early indications are that he will do well among this increasingly Democratic group in the general election. The May data show Obama with a 62% to 29% advantage over McCain among Hispanics.

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Did You Know? Internet ads may not influence the purchase, but they do drive consumers to the brand. Twenty-one percent of Hispanics ages 50 and older looked at Internet ads during the previous seven days prior to participating in the survey, compared with 15% of non-Hispanics the same age.

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June 5, 2008

Did You Know? The unemployment rate for Hispanic immigrants was 7.5 percent during the first months of this year, compared with 6.9 percent among native-born Hispanics. During the same period in 2007, the rates were 5.5 percent and 6.7 percent, respectively.

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June 4, 2008

Did You Know? More than 4,000 people, including about 450 members of the police department, have been killed in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderón took office a year and a half ago.

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Did You Know? Only 53.6 percent of Latino seniors - Utah’s largest minority group - graduated in 2005. That’s lower than the national average of 57.8 percent and about 8 percentage points lower than the graduation rate for Utah’s Latino seniors the year before.

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June 3, 2008

Did You Know? 297 illegal immigrants arrested in the raid on an Iowa meatpacking plant were sentenced to five months in prison for using false documents - but not one company official as yet faces any charges. - Postville

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