While it is clear that the Latino vote will be important in the 2012 elections, of immediate importance is the Republican battle raging for the Florida Caucus Tuesday January 31, 2012: an election for registered Republicans in the state that will be important for the GOP nomination to run for President of the United...

ComScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, released data from the Video Metrix service showing that 184 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in October for an average of 21.1 hours per viewer. The total U.S. Internet audience viewed 42.6 billion videos, representing an all-time high.

If we examine the world´s current food situation, we will see that while a large number of people lack food, those in developed countries are exactly the opposite: the supper food. Populations´ eating habits have changed over time due to many factors, and this reality does not escape Latin American countries. There are direct...

From 2009 to 2010, the number of Hispanic young adults enrolled in college grew by 349,000, compared with an increase of 88,000 young blacks and 43,000 young Asian Americans and a decrease of 320,000 young non-Hispanic whites. This is a remarkable growth over a one-year period, and is good news for the Hispanic community....

The study, by Richard Fry, also notes that Hispanics in college are outnumbering their peers for the first time, although young black college enrollment has also surged in recent years- from 32 percent of all 18-24 year-old blacks in 2008 to 38 percent in 2010. And what I found most surprising is that while...

In general the ‘Hispanic Family’ is described as follows: “Traditionally, the Hispanic family is a close-knit group and the most important social unit. The term familia usually goes beyond the nuclear family. The Hispanic ‘family unit’ includes not only parents and children but also extended family,” or so says Rebecca M. Cuevas De Caissie...

Over the past few years, both Facebook and the US Latino population have experienced tremendous growth. It began in 2004, and in less than eight years, Facebook is on track to reach 1 billion members. With the world’s population nearing 7 billion people, that means that one out of every seven people on Earth...

The Pew Hispanic Center always produces stellar data analyses, and they recently published another: Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks, Hispanics. They used data collected from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) in 2009, an economic questionnaire distributed periodically to tens of thousands of households in the U.S. Census...

It is that time of year when Advertising Age releases its annual guide to the Hispanic market. The 2011 Hispanic Fact Pack not only updates the information that has been put forth each year, but also showcases a new digital format. Just in case you are new to the Hispanic Fact Pack, here are...

Births have surpassed immigration as the main driver of the dynamic growth in the U.S. Hispanic population. According to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center, this new trend is especially evident among the largest of all Hispanic groups: Mexican-Americans. In the decade from 2000 to 2010, the...