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.
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.
June 26, 2008
Did You Know? Sol Trujillo CEO of Telstra is one of the chairmen of John McCain’s National Hispanic Advisory Board
June 23, 2008
Did You Know? Only 2 percent of the New Hampshire’s foreign-born population comes from Mexico
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
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.
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
June 17, 2008
Did You Know? 1 million new Latino voters turned out in California alone for the Democratic primary
Did You Know? A report found that Hispanics made up 32% of the California’s general population but only 5% of its practicing physicians.
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.
Did You Know? Obama voted to authorize construction of a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexican border.
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.
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.
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.
Did You Know? Hispanic-Americans were also 44% more likely than the total US population to be influenced by the Internet.
Did You Know? Connecticut election officials and Hispanic organizations are kicking off a statewide effort to register at least 10,000 new Latino voters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
June 2, 2008
Did You Know? Nearly 3,700 illegal immigrants have been arrested in dozens of business sweeps since October, immigration officials told the Houston Chronicle, far ahead of the previous year’s pace.
Did You Know? For every $1 that white American families save, a black or Latino family, on average, is only able to set aside 18 cents. The mortgage meltdown is having a devastating effect all across, but especially for people of color. It might strip as much as $213 billion in assets from black and Latino households, according to a recent study by the nonprofit group United for a Fair Economy.
Did You Know? Half the state’s 750,000 Puerto Ricans live in Central Florida. Most of them are Democrats, yet four of the five Puerto Rican elected officials in the region are Republicans, reinforcing the community’s prized independence in a closely divided state.
Did You Know? Hispanic and black young adults were at greater risk of being uninsured than whites, the report showed. While 23 percent of whites ages 19 to 29 lacked insurance, the figure was 36 percent of blacks and 53 percent of Hispanics.
May 28, 2008
Did You Know? At the San Ysidro Port of Entry – between Tijuana and San Diego – over 100,000 people cross every day. It’s the busiest land border crossing in the world. The sheer volume of traffic makes it impossible for U.S. border guards to check every vehicle and every document. If they did, the border would shut down.
Did You Know? The American Muslim Council, based in Chicago, estimates that there are more than 200,000 Latino Muslims in the United States.
Did You Know? As a whole, Hispanic households are the least ready for the transition (to digital TV). As a result, the effect of unready households on total viewing is more likely to affect Hispanic networks than Anglo networks. Viewing to unready sets accounts for 17 percent of prime-time viewing to English-language broadcast networks and 26.8 percent to Spanish-language broadcast networks.
May 27, 2008
Did You Know? More than 391 Latinos have been killed in Iraq.
May 22, 2008
Did You Know? When the salsa or salad was served with fat-rich avocados or full-fat salad dressing, the diners absorbed as much as 4 times more lycopene, 7 times more lutein and 18 times the beta carotene than those who had their vegetables plain or with low-fat dressing.
May 16, 2008
Did You Know? One out of every four children under the age of 18 years in the United States are Hispanic
May 15, 2008
Did You Know? In Phoenix, 15,976 immigrants applied for citizenship during fiscal 2007, which ended Sept. 30, up 64 percent from 2006.
Did You Know? Every day, more than half (56%) of Hispanic-Americans surveyed said they spent at least an hour online, which was slightly more than the 50% who spent an hour or more watching TV.
May 14, 2008
Did You Know? Children are big business in Guatemala, where international adoption is estimated to be a $100 million industry, making orphans the country’s second-most lucrative export after bananas.
Did You Know? Officials say 90% of the Latino students at Postville high school aren’t in class today and a third of all the students in kindergarten through eighth grade are absent. - Impact of raid - Iowa
May 13, 2008
Did You Know? 62 percent of the recent growth in the Latino population has been through births, not immigration.
Did You Know? Tulsa police say about 40 percent of all robberies target Hispanic immigrants. - Oklahoma
Did You Know? Unemployment among Hispanics rose 1.4 percentage points to 6.9 percent from April 2007 to April this year
May 12, 2008
Did You Know? Since January 2006, when Florida began identifying voters as Hispanic, Democratic registration has increased 18 percent.
Did You Know? McCain voted for a proposal to make English the national language in 2006?
May 9, 2008
Did You Know? Hispanic women are less educated than non-Hispanic women. Some 36% have less than a high school education, compared with 10% of non-Hispanic women. Nearly half (49%) of all Hispanic women immigrants have less than a high school education; a similar share (46%) of native-born Hispanic women have at least some college education.
Did You Know? The majority (55%) of all Hispanic women report that they speak only English in their home or that they speak English very well. Most of these English speakers are native born. Seven-in-ten (73%) immigrant Hispanic women report that they do not speak English in their home or that they do not speak English very well.
Did You Know? Among immigrant Hispanic women, 57% have arrived since 1990. Six-in-ten Hispanic women immigrants were born in Mexico.
Did You Know? Approximately half (48%) of all Hispanic women were born in the U.S. or born abroad to a parent who is a U.S. citizen; the other half (52%) were born in countries other than the U.S.
May 5, 2008
Did You Know? The greatest Mexican player of all time, I told Reyes, was — drumroll, please — Ted Williams. Williams’ mom was May Venzor, daughter of Pablo Venzor and Natalie Hernandez of Chihuahua. Williams’ dad wasn’t around much, so Ted was raised next to his Hispanic cousins in San Diego
Did You Know? Cinco de Mayo commemorates an initial victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín over French forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. - Wikipedia
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