About 90% of U.S. teens go online daily and 32% of Latino teens go online "almost constantly," a higher rate that white teens (19%) and comparable to black teens (34%), according to a new Pew Research report. Much of this frenzy of access is facilitated by mobile devices. Overall, more than 70% of Latino, black, and white teens ages 13-17 have access to a smartphone, which has become a top driver of teen Internet, texting, and social media use. Patterns of social media use seem to be affected by socioeconomic status, as teens from lesser-income households (those earning less than $50,000) are more likely than others to say they use Facebook the most. Teens from high-higher households are somewhat more likely to visit Snapchat and Twitter more often than those from lesser-income ...
The United States is expected to become a "majority-minority" by 2044, when no racial/ethnic group comprises more than half of the nation's residents, according to new Census data. Currently, whites comprise about 63% of the population. By 2060, that percentage will reduce to 44%, while other minority groups continue to rise in number. Latinos are expected to rise from 17.4% now to 28.6% in 2060. Blacks will rise from 13.2% to 14.3% and Asians 5.4% to 9.3% in the same span. Children are expected to reach "majority-minority" status even sooner in 2020. These numbers are shifting due to decreasing fertility among non-Latino whites, and increases in immigration, according to a Medical Daily report: "The New York Times reported that 2013 marked the first year in U.S. ...
For the first time ever, U.S. public schools are projected this fall to have more minority students than white students enrolled, a shift largely fueled by growth in the number of Hispanic children, the Associated Press reports. White students are still most populous, but their numbers dipped just below 50% for the first time. Here is the racial/ethnic breakdown of students, according to National Center for Education Statistics: 49.8% White
25% Hispanic
15% Black
5% Asian
5% Other "The shift creates new academic realities, such as the need for more English language instruction, and cultural ones, meaning changes in school lunch menus in the Southwest and elsewhere to include tortillas and other offerings to reflect students’ tastes," according to the Associated ...
While Hispanics have much lower risks of developing melanoma than non-Hispanic whites in California, they develop the disease at younger ages, develop thicker tumors, which are more difficult to treat, and experience a higher percentage of cases among people living in poorer areas, according to a new study. This finding, just published in the journal Cancer by scientists at the Cancer Prevention Institute of California (CPIC), Stanford University, and the University of Southern California/Keck School of Medicine, follows a 2009 CPIC finding that melanoma rates are increasing in all racial/ethnic groups nationally, and points to the need for prevention efforts tailored to Hispanics. To examine the importance of socioeconomic status in relation to melanoma incidence and tumor subtype ...
