Did You Know + Texas Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 18, 2009
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.
June 24, 2009
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.
June 23, 2009
Fort Worth is the largest city in Texas without a Hispanic representing a House seat
September 18, 2008
25% of Texas State incoming freshman for the fall of 2008 are Hispanic
July 27, 2008
Democrat Rick Noriega is trying this year to become the first Hispanic U.S. senator from Texas, good news for some El Pasoans eager to see one of their own in the august chamber.
April 28, 2008
Did You Know? UTEP ranked fourth for enrolling Hispanic students in graduate programs overall. In 2007, 1,855 students, or 57 percent, were Hispanic.
March 31, 2008
Did You Know? Nearly 3,000 teens and young adults gathered on the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor campus Easter weekend, setting record attendance for Congreso, a gathering of Hispanic Texas Baptists.
March 20, 2008
Did You Know? Hispanic children make up 47% of the 4.7 million students in Texas public classrooms.
March 13, 2008
Did You Know? researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health conclude that the McAllen metropolitan area is one of the five worst regions of the country in its proportion of Latino children who live in “low-opportunity” neighborhoods compared to white children.
March 6, 2008
Did You Know? One of every five votes in Texas was cast by a Latina for the primaries
March 5, 2008
Did You Know? In Texas, Clinton also won among younger Latinos. She received 53 percent of votes from Hispanics who are 18 to 29 years old.
Did You Know? In Texas, Clinton held a two-to-one advantage over Obama with Hispanic voters
February 20, 2008
Did You Know? Analysts say Hispanics make up about 35 percent to 40 percent of Democratic primary voters but might account for considerably more on March 4 if Texas mirrors the record turnouts in other states.
January 28, 2008
Did You Know? Between 8 percent and 9 percent of the Texas workforce is estimated to be in the country illegally, according to an analysis of 2005 U.S. Census data by the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center
January 16, 2008
Did You Know? Texas state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, has landed quite a gig. She will respond in Spanish to President Bush’s Jan. 28 State of the Union address on behalf of Democrats.
November 6, 2007
Did You Know? The first Hispanic female Immigration and Customs Enforcement National Academy instructor announced Monday that she will run for El Paso County sheriff. – Maria Guadalupe Dempsey
November 5, 2007
Did You Know? A former Houston police officer has been sentenced to just more than three years in prison for hiring illegal immigrants as guards and then arming them.
September 25, 2007
Did You Know? More than 300 illegal immigrants are being deported every month from the city of Irving, Texas
September 18, 2007
Did You Know? Hispanic enrollment increased from 5,671 to 6,016 and now represents 22 percent of the student body at Texas State University-San Marcos
July 31, 2007
Did You Know? A study in showed that children (predominantly Hispanics) living within 2 miles of the heavily industrialized Houston Ship Channel have a 56 percent greater risk of contracting acute lymphocytic leukemia than children living farther away — a risk that epidemiologists found was associated with some of the toxic pollutants released by petrochemical plants in the area.
July 25, 2007
Did You Know? Hispanic teens are more than 3 ½ times as likely as Anglos to have a baby in Texas
July 24, 2007
Did You Know? Lynda de la Viña, Business dean at University of Texas at San Antonio was the first Mexican-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in economics in the United States
July 23, 2007
Did You Know? Only 3.9 percent of Hispanics are enrolled in higher education in Texas
July 9, 2007
Did You Know? In Texas, the 2.1 million registered Latino voters already constitute 22 percent of the states total of 9.6 million
June 14, 2007
Did You Know? Hispanics make up a third of the states population – much larger than the 13 percent for the U.S. as a whole. More than half of the uninsured in Texas are Hispanic, compared with 25 percent for the nation.
June 5, 2007
Did You Know? In 2006 only half of Hispanic 10th graders in Texas knew basic math skills, compared with nearly 75 percent of white students
May 10, 2007
Did You Know? African American and Hispanic women combined represent 78 percent of women living with HIV in Texas
April 12, 2007
Did You Know? Four of five misdemeanor offenders in the Texas’ juvenile prisons are black or Hispanic
April 5, 2007
Did You Know? The San Antonio Spurs To Wear Special Latin-Themed Uniform on April 9th, 2007
February 5, 2007
Did You Know? Hispanics account for more than 40 percent of the Dallas population, with about 482,000
January 16, 2007
Did You Know? Up to 10,000 Peruvians live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area
January 8, 2007
Did You Know? “$2.1 billion are spent by Hispanic families on groceries annually in Dallas/ Fort Worth,” … “That equates to $178 million on a monthly basis.”
December 15, 2006
Did You Know? Of the 13 Democrats from Texas in the US House of Representatives six are Hispanics and three are blacks, including two women.
December 12, 2006
Did You Know? Only one in four of University of Texas’ top 10 percent freshmen is African American or Hispanic.
