Online Clearinghouse provides comprehensive information on Latino population studies. New York

“The New York Latino Research Clearinghouse at Teachers College, Columbia University, is an online source of the most up-to-date research reports, academic papers and policy news that relate to the Latino populations of the United States by the leading scholars and policy organizations in the country.

“There are more than 40 million Latinos in the United States, which makes this the biggest racial and ethnic minority population in the country yet the research on Latinos has been scattered across many sources, with no single site that brings it all together,” says Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz, Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Affiliate Professor of International and Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and Managing Editor of the Clearinghouse. He added that in New York City alone there are close to 2.5 million Latinos. “We expect the Clearinghouse to be at the forefront of disseminating the latest data and information on the history, socioeconomic situation and educational status of the various Latino groups in America and to facilitate networking and information among scholars,” he said.

Visitors to the Clearinghouse, which can be found at http://www.tc.edu/latinoresearch/, can access up to the minute research reports on subjects ranging from estimates of the number of undocumented Latinos in the US to assessments of immigration, policy reform to asthma rates among Latinos in New York City. “

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