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...Hispanic Center released a study of first-, second- and third-generation Hispanics in the U.S. - a look at how the Latin-American population has grown and assimilated over the past three decades. As recently as 1980, just 9% of U.S. kids under 18 were Hispanic, compared with 22% today. Only about a tenth of that population are first-generation Latin Americans - meaning they were born outside the U.S. More than half (52%) are second generation - born in the U.S. to at least one foreign-born parent; and 37% were born in America to American-born parents. By 2025, the study...
What happens, of course, when an immigrant group heads toward assimilation, is that each successive generation gets more educated (82% of first-generation Latin-American kids ages 15 to 17 attend school, compared with 97% of second-generation kids - hardly perfect but moving toward parity) and more proficient in the national language (by the third generation, 95% of Latino kids ages 15 to 17 speak English exclusively or very well). Another thing that happens is that parents start moving away from baby names like Guillermo and closer to names like William. "When [immigrant or later-generation] parents name their children...
...Mountain Coffee Roasters in Vermont, the Fair Trade company that commissioned the survey. "I was ready to quit." Massachusetts Fair Trade firm Equal Exchange spokesman Rodney North admits, "There is a potential disconnect between what the buyer thinks Fair Trade is accomplishing and the situation on the ground," from Latin America to Asia...
...workers on Saturday for the 16th Annual Thomas J. White Symposium to “celebrate the year’s achievements and strategize for the future,” according to Ophelia Dahl, PIH Executive Director. PIH—a Harvard-affiliated nonprofit organization with partners in Latin America, Africa, and Russia—was founded in 1987 by Paul Farmer, Thomas J. White, and Todd McCormack. They were later joined by Dahl and Jim Y. Kim, who recently left Harvard to become the President of Dartmouth University.The symposium brought together PIH doctors, volunteers, and project leaders who work...
...Mexico tragedy, it's confident Brazil has matured enough to solve its headaches or at least keep them from adversely affecting the Olympics. Barack Obama reminded the IOC that Chicago is the "city that works." But Chicago lost out in large part because Lula could argue that, in Brazil, Latin America finally has a country that works. As a result, it's time to light the torch down South American...