Hispanic y Latino 'Did You Know' Facts selected by Tomás

There are 16 million children in immigrant families in the United States

Hispanics are 9% of the Virginia’s schoolchildren, but 5% of gifted students.

In the 8 states poised to gain congressional seats, Latino voter registration grew 45% and Latino voter turnout expanded 50% between 2000 and 2008. – In the 11 states poised to lose seats, Latino voter registration grew 50% and Latino voter turnout expanded 62% between 2000 and 2008.

Latinos make up a combined 77% of the population growth in the eleven states projected to lose a House seat – would have fared worse had Latinos not moved there in record numbers

After the 2010 Census, new Members of Congress in states like Georgia and South Carolina as well as Arizona and Texas will owe their positions, in part, to the expanding Latino population.

Nearly 70% of Latinos think that spiritual healing is very important in maintaining health and well being.

Hispanics make up a record 25.7% of the New York Police Department.

Young Latino adults in the United States are more likely to be in school or the work force now than their counterparts were in previous generations. In 1970, 77% of Hispanics ages 16 to 25 were either working, going to school or serving in the military; by 2007, 86% of Latinos in this coming-of-age group were taking part in these skill-building endeavors

89% Latino young adults ages 16 to 25 say that a college education is important for success in life, yet only about half that number-48%-say that they themselves plan to get a college degree

41% non-citizen, non-legal permanent resident Hispanic adults state that their usual provider is a community clinic or health center.

Salvadoran immigrants and Americans of Salvadoran descent have grown to number 1.6 million — essentially tying them with Cubans as the nation’s third largest Latino group

Nearly 2.5 million Latinos in the United States, or roughly 10 percent of the nation’s Latino population, are afflicted with diabetes, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Diabetes Education Program. – By 2050, the agency predicts, two of five Latino young people, and one in two Latino females born in the year 2000, will have developed diabetes.

Asthma affects about 33 Puerto Rican children for every two non-Latino Caucasian children.

Margaret Montoya, a longtime member of the University of New Mexico law school faculty, was the first Latina to be admitted to Harvard Law School.

New Mexico Supreme Court Justice Petra Jimenez Maes was one of the first two Hispanic women to graduate from the University of New Mexico’s law school. In 2003, she became the state’s first Latina chief justice.

Hispanic women make up only 1.3% of all lawyers in the United States. That is the lowest representation of any racial or ethnic group (overall and within their own gender) as compared to their overall presence in the nation – Latinas make up over 7% of the country’s population

65% of whites, 51% of African-Americans and 44% of Hispanics searched for health information according to eMarketer

“The majority of the US Hispanic population is bilingual, and they decide where and when to speak English and Spanish,” says Ms. Phillips. “Marketers should execute campaigns and offerings in both languages,” explains Ms. Phillips. “The efforts will not go unnoticed, as English-dominant speakers will still see and appreciate messages targeted to them in Spanish, and Spanish-dominant speakers will know the advertiser is serious about addressing them.”

About 40.9 percent of Hispanic children between 10 and 17 years old are obese in the United States, according to the BHC. But in Texas this number is even higher, at 46.8 percent.

“Even under the low immigration assumptions, minorities will fuel 73 percent of household growth in 2010-20, with Hispanics leading the way at 36 percent,” researchers found.

Fort Worth is the largest city in Texas without a Hispanic representing a House seat

The Estefans wouldn’t be the NFL’s first Hispanic owners. E. Javier Loya, CEO of CHOICE! Energy, is a Houston Texans limited partner.

College enrollment for Hispanic students at Georgia’s public and private schools grew by almost 150 percent, or about 7,700 students, from 1997-2007

The backlog of immigration cases awaiting disposal by the judges is steadily increasing. Since the end of FY 2006 this backlog has grown by 19% – over the past decade, it has increased by 64%.

Hispanic Businesses in Baltimore – A Fact Sheet

70 Percent of Hispanics Over 50 Are Still Working

The number of Hispanic students at the Naval Academy is more than 14 percent in the Class of 2013, up from more than 10 percent the year before

Wisconsin made 5,000 pounds of Hispanic cheeses in 2008

June 3, 1943 marked the start of just over a week of violence on the streets of Los Angeles that would come to be known as the Zoot Suit Riots – 66th Anniversary

Did You Know? There are more Hispanics in the U.S. than Spaniards in Spain.

Hispanics nearly 10% of Washington state’s population

Peru has 162,000 adolescent mothers

Hispanic spending growing in Carolinas – Hispanics are currently the second biggest spenders in North Carolina, accounting for 9.4% of total buying dollars.

22% of 4 year old Hispanic children are obese according to new research

An analysis of OIS data by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund reveals that nearly one out of two (44%) of the nation’s 1,046,539 new U.S. citizens was Latino

One person dies every day in Peru because of lack of organ donors

Did You Know? In 2009 there are only 45,000 Hispanic doctors in the US out of 900,000 total

Did You Know? Two of every five first-time home buyers in the Tampa Bay area will be Hispanic within the next 20 years

If you’re getting ready to start a business or have one that already exists, you might want to consider the fact that by the year 2010, Hispanics will make up one-third of the U.S. buying market.

Poll: Miami’s Cuban-Americans favor end to embargo

Did You Know? The 95 million Black, Hispanic and Asian consumers living in the U.S equal the 12th most populous country in the world

The 65th Infantry Regiment is the only all-Hispanic unit in the history of the U.S. Army. It was created in 1899 to help re-establish law and order on Puerto Rico following its seizure during the Spanish-American War, according to information from the city. The regiment participated in World War I, World War II and the Korean War.

The University of Missouri-Kansas City posted a 6.1 percent gain in its total minority enrollment and a 17 percent increase in Hispanic freshmen.

Between 2004 and 2008, Hispanic voters INCREASED as a percentage of the electorate in the following battlegrounds: AZ (+4), CO (+5), IA (+2), IN (+2), MI (+1), MN (+2), MO (+1), MT (+3), NV (+5), NH (+1), NM (+9), NC (+2), ND (+2), OH (+1), PA (+1), SD (+3), VA (+2), WV (+3), and WI (+1). Between 2004 and 2008, Hispanic voters DECREASED as a percentage of the electorate in the following battlegrounds: FL (-1), GA (-1), NJ (-1)

Hispanic numbers double in 6 Oklahoma counties

In 1964, President Johnson’s top adviser, Jack Valenti, cut down a group of Latinos seeking presidential appointments. “You have one percent of the vote, so you have one percent of my attention,” Raul Yzaguirre recalled Valenti saying.

Today marks the last day of a three-week hunger strike by immigrant rights protesters who hoped to re-energize the movement. – Los Angeles

Hispanic children had a 65% higher probability than non-Hispanic, white children of being uninsured at some point during the year with an insured parent and an 80% greater chance of being uninsured for more than 6 months

Of the 25 counties with the fastest-growing Hispanic populations in the United States, seven are in Northern Virginia, according to a new report by the Pew Hispanic Center.

Did You Know? Hispanic children had lower rates of reported food allergy (3.1 percent) than non-Hispanic white (4.1 percent) or non-Hispanic black children (4 percent.)