Hispanic y Latino 'Did You Know' Facts selected by Tomás

Did You Know? Hispanic women are less educated than non-Hispanic women. Some 36% have less than a high school education, compared with 10% of non-Hispanic women. Nearly half (49%) of all Hispanic women immigrants have less than a high school education; a similar share (46%) of native-born Hispanic women have at least some college education.

Did You Know? The majority (55%) of all Hispanic women report that they speak only English in their home or that they speak English very well. Most of these English speakers are native born. Seven-in-ten (73%) immigrant Hispanic women report that they do not speak English in their home or that they do not speak English very well.

Did You Know? Among immigrant Hispanic women, 57% have arrived since 1990. Six-in-ten Hispanic women immigrants were born in Mexico.

Did You Know? Approximately half (48%) of all Hispanic women were born in the U.S. or born abroad to a parent who is a U.S. citizen; the other half (52%) were born in countries other than the U.S.

Did You Know? The greatest Mexican player of all time, I told Reyes, was — drumroll, please — Ted Williams. Williams’ mom was May Venzor, daughter of Pablo Venzor and Natalie Hernandez of Chihuahua. Williams’ dad wasn’t around much, so Ted was raised next to his Hispanic cousins in San Diego

Did You Know? Cinco de Mayo commemorates an initial victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín over French forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. - Wikipedia

Did You Know? There may more than 10,000 Mayan Indians living in outlying areas of metro Atlanta

Did You Know? Sixteen states had a Hispanic population of more than 1/2 a million

Did You Know? Allstate budgeted $36.1 million in Hispanic media for the first three quarters of 2007

Did You Know? Hispanics make up nearly 40 percent of Houston’s Harris county’s population but just 15 percent of its electorate - Texas

Did You Know? Hispanic men die from accidents at nearly twice the national rate for men, and Hispanic women die from diabetes at twice the national rate for women

Did You Know? UTEP ranked fourth for enrolling Hispanic students in graduate programs overall. In 2007, 1,855 students, or 57 percent, were Hispanic.

Did You Know? Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now! co-host and a columnist for the New York Daily News. In 1968 Juan was a member of SDS and one of the only Latino activists on the Columbia campus- Forty Years After Historic Columbia Strike

Did You Know? The Puerto Rican-American John Ruiz is the first and only Latino heavyweight champion of the world.

Did You Know? A study last year by the Hispanic Institute, found that on average, prepaid calling cards deliver 60% of the minutes they advertise. The Federal Trade Commission estimates that annually the industry sells $4 billion in calling cards.

Did You Know? 2.2 Million Hispanic-Owned Firms Estimated to Generate Almost $400B

Did You Know? States have considered more than 1,100 bills that deal with aspects of immigration this year (My question are how much money has been spent doing this and what party affiliations did the sponsors have)

Did You Know? Jorge Pérez is chairman and chief executive officer of The Related Group, the largest Hispanic-owned business in the U.S. and the country’s largest multi-family real estate development firm.

Did You Know? That primary care physicians treating a disproportionate number of black and Hispanic patients typically earn less, see more patients, provide more charity care, treat more Medicaid beneficiaries and receive lower private insurance payments than their counterparts who treat fewer such patients.

Did You Know? Hispanic youth believe that 40 percent of the U.S. population is Hispanic (the actual figure is closer to 15 percent, per the U.S. census). ”Culturally they feel like they are responsible for 40 percent of America,” says Christy Haubegger, brand manager at Creative Artists Agency.

Did You Know? That around 2 million Hispanics were deported during the Great Depression, many of them legal residents or even U.S. citizens - (The question is could it happen again? I don’t know but I know that plenty of the anti-immigration folk want this)

Did You Know? More than 30,000 noncitizens are serving in the U.S. armed forces and Almost 37,000 have been naturalized since September 2001.

Did You Know? The Colorado Civil Rights Division says Boulder County is the second-hardest place in the country for Hispanics to get a fair home loan. - Cambridge, Mass. was #1

Did You Know? The University of California system admitted 12,432 students of Hispanic descent - that’s 1,717 or 16% more than last year

Did You Know? About two-thirds of immigrants in the Rockies are Hispanic, but more than 60% of Hispanics in the region are not immigrants. There is not a single state in the Rockies in which the immigrant Hispanic population outnumbers the native Hispanic population.

Did You Know? After dozens of interviews, the (Las Vegas) Sun concluded in an April 6 story that 60 percent to 80 percent of the Las Vegas Valley’s residential construction workers are illegal immigrants. Tens of thousands of these immigrants who have lost construction jobs are no longer feeding money into the economy. Many are leaving Las Vegas.

Did You Know? The Bay Area’s digital divide is also apparent when comparing Latinos with other ethnic groups. Just 57 percent of Latinos have some form of Internet access and 50 percent have a broadband connection. - California

Did You Know? Orlando Cepeda is one of just two Puerto Rican natives to attain the exalted Hall of Fame status in baseball. + he is the only one alive as Roberto Clemente is the other one

Did You Know? One and a half million Americans already own residential real estate in Mexico

Did You Know? Phoenix police union president Mark Spencer said a 2006 police homicide summary report shows 63 percent of murder victims in Phoenix were Hispanic.

Did You Know? Hispanic high school graduates are expected to surge by nearly 50 percent by 2018 in Florida.

Did You Know? The U.S. Border Patrol said Tuesday that the number of apprehensions dropped 17% to 347,372 between Oct. 1, 2007, and March 31, 2008, from the same period in late 2006 and early 2007.

Did You Know? At least 70 police officers were hospitalized after so-called Africanized bees swarmed a police shooting range in southern Mexico

Did You Know? Junot Diaz is the second Latino to win the Pulitzer for fiction, after Cuban-American writer Oscar Hijuelos

Tropical decay blights McCain’s Panama birthplace - Did you know he was born in Panama?

Did You Know? The Bush administration says it’ll bypass dozens of laws to finish construction of a fence along the Mexican border.

Did You Know? English-speaking Hispanic women were found to be the most active TV show streamers

Did You Know? More than 14,000 Dominican public hospital doctors went on strike Wednesday for the third time this month to demand wage hikes and better working conditions.

Did You Know? Today is Cesar Chavez’s birthday and is a holiday in eight states, including California.

Did You Know? Nearly 3,000 teens and young adults gathered on the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor campus Easter weekend, setting record attendance for Congreso, a gathering of Hispanic Texas Baptists.

Did You Know? ICE has been targeting illegal immigrants with criminal convictions, and the related costs are growing. Last year, 164,000 immigrant criminals were placed into deportation proceedings, up from 64,000 in 2006

Did You Know? MLS has signed 24 new players for 2008, 19 of them from Latin America

Did You Know? By 2011, nearly one person out of every six living in the United States will be of Hispanic origin and will account for 9.5 percent of all U.S. buying power, up from only 5 percent in 1990.

Did You Know? A new study estimates that Oklahoma’s anti-illegal immigration law will cause $1.8 billion in economic losses as foreign-born workers flee the state.

Did You Know? Bbetween 1972 and 1992, the percentage of Hispanic high school graduates who went to college climbed from 47 percent to 70 percent. However, the college completion rate fell. In 1975, 40 percent of all Hispanics who entered college completed their bachelor’s degrees. By 2004, the percentages had dropped to 34 percent for Hispanics.

Did You Know? New York City alone has lost 71 soldiers, at least 25 of them Hispanic, in Iraq. Many have been young. Too young.

Did You Know? In 2006, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found new AIDS cases worsening only among Latinos — compared with all other racial/ethnic groups. Their cases doubled from 2001 to 2004, with Latinas’ new infections jumping from 23 percent to 51 percent in that time period.

Did You Know? More than 71 percent of Mexican women and 66 percent of Mexican men are overweight, according to the latest national surveys.

Did You Know? Through January, the National Guard Bureau spent more than $1 billion on the program (Operation Jump Start on the border) — nearly $212 million in the 2006 fiscal year, $687 million in fiscal 2007 and $136 million during the first four months of fiscal 2008.

Did You Know? Of the 4,000 US military deaths in Iraq - the percentages by ethnic group are - White: 75 percent; Hispanic or Latino: 11 percent; black: 9 percent; Asian: 2 percent; multiple races, pending, or unknown: 1 percent; American Indian or Alaska Native: 1 percent; Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 1 percent