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Dicho del mes Economy Education Health Immigration Language Dicho del mes Más hace una hormiga andando que un buey echado. (An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox).
Immigrants experience sharp decline in household income The median annual income of non-citizen immigrant households fell 7.3% from 2006 to 2007, according to a recent Pew Hispanic Center report. In contrast, the median annual income of all U.S. households increased 1.3% during the same period. The report analyzed recent trends in the incomes of the nation's 8.2 million non-citizen immigrant households. About half (45 percent) of non-citizen immigrant households are headed by an undocumented immigrant. This decline represents a sharp turnaround from the preceding year. Overall, the income of non-citizen households has displayed great instability in the past decade, fluctuating much more than the average for all U.S. households. The Center's estimates show that household incomes have fallen most for non-citizens who are Hispanic; from Mexico, other Latin American countries and the Caribbean; recently arrived; males, either unmarried or with no spouse present; lacking a high school education; and employed in construction, production or service occupations. Source: Pew Hispanic Center, "Sharp Decline in Income for Non-Citizen Immigrant Household, 2006-2007", October 2, 2008, http://pewhispanic.org/
One in five U.S. students are Hispanic The Pew Hispanic Center released a review of the national school population, which found that Hispanic students nearly doubled from 1990 to 2006. There are about 10 million Hispanic students in U.S. public elementary through high schools. In 2006, one in five students were Hispanic; in 1990, it was one in eight. Hispanic enrollment is expected to continue growing for decades, according to a U.S. Census Bureau population projection. The Hispanic school-age population will increase by 166 percent by 2040, while the non-Hispanic population is projected to grow just 4 percent. While Hispanics are 20 percent of the overall U.S. school enrollment, they top 40 percent of enrollments in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The Pew report say 84 percent of Hispanic public school students were born in the U.S.A. Sadly, more than a quarter of the Hispanic students live in poverty, compared with 11 percent of white students and 35 percent of black students. Source: Pew Hispanic Center, "One-in-Five and Growing Fast: A Profile of Hispanic Public School Students," August 26, 2008, http://pewresearch.org
Many Latinos get health information from media, not medical professionals More than a fourth of Hispanic adults in the U.S. reported that they received no health information from medical professionals in the last year. The reason, many said, was they did not visit health professionals because they are seldom sick. More than 80 percent of those surveyed for the Pew Hispanic Center’s study said they received health information from alternative sources, such as television and radio, and 73 percent said they act on the information they see or hear. Glenn Lopez, an assistant professor in UCLA’s department of Family Medicine, said the survey’s results are a mixed bag. “I believe there is less control in truth in advertising in the Spanish media than the English media, because I’ve seen these outrageous claims being made about vitamins and other projects,” Lopex was quoted in an article on the topic in the Daily News. “But I’m actually very impressed with the Spanish media in terms of their news coverage. They have a built-in commitment to getting out a lot of information on health issues, especially with diabetes.” The researchers were surprised that half of the Latinos with no regular medical care are high school graduates, and of those, 30 percent were born in the United States and 45 percent have health insurance. Source: Pew Hispanic Center, "Hispanics and Health Care in the United States: Access, Information and Knowledge," August 13, 2008, http://www.pewhispanic.org
Undocumented immigrants growing at a slower rate According to Pew Hispanic Center estimates, there were 11.9 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States in March 2008*. The estimates show that the unauthorized immigrant population grew more slowly in the period from 2005 to 2008 than it did earlier in the decade. The analysis also show that from 2005 to 2008, the inflow of immigrants who are undocumented fell below that of immigrants who are legal permanent residents. That reverses a trend that began a decade ago. The Pew Hispanic Center also estimates that inflows of unauthorized immigrants averaged 800,000 a year from 2000 to 2004, but fell to 500,000 a year from 2005 to 2008 with a decreasing year-to-year trend. By contrast, the inflow of legal permanent residents has been relatively steady this decade. Although the growth of the unauthorized population has slackened, its size has increased by more than 40% since 2000, when it was 8.4 million. In 2005, the Pew Hispanic Center estimated there were 11.1 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. The most recent estimate, 11.9 million, indicates that unauthorized immigrants make up 4% of the U.S. population. (*The size of the unauthorized population appears to have declined since 2007, but this finding is inconclusive because of the margin of error in these estimates. These estimates are based mainly on data from the 2000 Census and the March Current Population Surveys for the years since then. Because the Census Bureau does not ask people their immigration status, these estimates are derived using a widely accepted methodology that essentially subtracts the estimated legal-immigrant population from the total foreign-born population.) Source: Pew Hispanic Center, "Trends in Unauthorized Immigration: Undocumented Inflow Now Trails Legal Inflow", October 2, 2008, http://pewhispanic.org/
Language can be a barrier to finding credible and reliable information online Language barriers prevent many Spanish speakers from sharing in the educational and economic opportunities that the internet offers, according to news release by the Web search site “findingDulcinea.” The organization is launching a Spanish version called “EncontrandoDulcinea.” There is an inadequate supply of online content that speaks to bilingual and Spanish-dominant Hispanics, according to the publisher of HispanicTrending.net, a Latino marketing and advertising blog. Hispanics either can’t find it, or it is so bad they’re rather use English language sites, even when they prefer to read explanatory information in Spanish. Though the Internet is a global phenomenon, U.S.-based, English-only Web sites remain the most popular destinations for Internet users from all over the world. The new “encontrandoDulcinea” offers narrated, topic-specific tours of hand-selected, credible Web sites, with insights and research strategies to help readers find what they are searching for. Source: PR Newswire, "Hispanic outlets expand in size and reach," by Lee, Jamie, August 06 2008, http://www.prweekus.com/
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