tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757412088323843163.post1099347798425545639..comments2024-02-15T06:40:30.058-06:00Comments on DREAM ACT - TEXAS: The Internet Tells AllMarie-Theresa Hernández, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010416361776783800noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757412088323843163.post-29545315086829376782010-03-27T12:07:11.257-05:002010-03-27T12:07:11.257-05:00MSNBC.COM : Minority babies set to become majority...<b>MSNBC.COM : Minority babies set to become majority in 2010 - Year could be tipping point when non-white newborns outnumber white</b><br /><br />Associated Press<br />MSNBC.COM<br />Minority babies set to become majority in 2010<br />March. 10, 2010<br /><br />Minority babies set to become majority in 2010<br /><br />http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35793316/<br /><br />Some excerpts :<br /><br />WASHINGTON - Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years.<br /><br />In fact, demographers say this year could be the "tipping point" when the number of babies born to minorities outnumbers that of babies born to whites.<br /><br />The numbers are growing because immigration to the U.S. has boosted the number of Hispanic women in their prime childbearing years.<br /><br />Minorities made up 48 percent of U.S. children born in 2008, the latest census estimates available, compared to 37 percent in 1990.<br /><br />"Census projections suggest America may become a minority-majority country by the middle of the century. For America's children, the future is now," said Kenneth Johnson, a sociology professor at the University of New Hampshire who researched many of the racial trends in a paper being released Wednesday.<br /><br />Johnson explained there are now more Hispanic women of prime childbearing age who tend to have more children than women of other races.<br /><br />----------------<br /><br />The Census Bureau is running public service announcements this week to improve its tally of young children, particularly minorities, who are most often missed in the once-a-decade head count.<br /><br />The campaign features Nickelodeon's Dora the Explorer, the English- and Spanish-speaking Nickelodeon cartoon character who helps "mommy fill out our census form."<br />.....................<br /><br />That is because Hispanic women on average have three children, while other women on average have two.<br /><br />The numbers are 2.99 children for Hispanics, 1.87 for whites, 2.13 for blacks and 2.04 for Asians in the U.S.<br /><br />And the number of white women of prime childbearing age is on the decline, dropping 19 percent from 1990.<br /><br /><br /><b>Youth, Minorities, Politics :</b><br /><br /><a href="http://milenials.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow"><strong>Milenials.com</strong></a><br /><br />Vicente DuqueDefensores de Democraciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01990488344886411353noreply@blogger.com