Did You Know + Florida Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

December 15, 2008

Did You Know? Two of every five first-time home buyers in the Tampa Bay area will be Hispanic within the next 20 years

December 3, 2008

Poll: Miami’s Cuban-Americans favor end to embargo

October 26, 2008

Did You Know? Miami-Dade has 50,859 ESOL students (15% of the district’s student body) and in Broward has 24,631 ESOL students (almost 10% of all students) – Florida

August 1, 2008

Democracia USA was responsible for registering 35% of all the new Hispanic voters in 2006

The Hispanic voting population in the Orlando media market also quadrupled between 1990 -2008 from 66,000 to 234,000

June 2, 2008

Did You Know? Half the state’s 750,000 Puerto Ricans live in Central Florida. Most of them are Democrats, yet four of the five Puerto Rican elected officials in the region are Republicans, reinforcing the community’s prized independence in a closely divided state.

May 12, 2008

Did You Know? Since January 2006, when Florida began identifying voters as Hispanic, Democratic registration has increased 18 percent.

April 10, 2008

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

January 28, 2008

Did You Know? About 20% of the Sunshine State’s population is Hispanic (rising to more than 60% in Miami Dade County) and it has long played an influential and sometimes decisive role in American politics.

January 14, 2008

Did You Know? Hispanic immigrants in Florida sent more than $3 billion home in 2006, a portion of the $45 billion remitted nationwide to Latin America.

September 15, 2007

Did You Know? To earn $50 in a day, an Immokalee picker must harvest two tons of tomatoes, or 125 buckets. Each bucket weighs about thirty-two pounds – Florida

July 31, 2007

Did You Know? A Florida travel agency, Viajes Principal, offers a 17-day, $5,000-a-person tour of Europe for quinceañeras and their families, culminating with a formal dinner atop the Eiffel Tower and boat tour down the Seine, the girls decked out in their quince regalia.

July 30, 2007

Did You Know? That there are 3,000 cases needing Spanish translations each month in the 20th Judicial Circuit, which covers Lee, Charlotte, Collier, Glades and Hendry counties in Florida.

June 27, 2007

Did You Know? Over 1,000 Hispanic elected officials and community leaders from across the country are in Orlando this week for the 24th annual conference of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.

June 24, 2007

Did You Know? El Sentinel, the weekly published by the Orlando Sentinel, won first place in general excellence. Reporter Walter Pacheco won first place in Spanish-language education reporting and second place in the “outstanding Hispanic success story” category. – Florida Society of Newspaper Editors

Did You Know? Up to half of the businesses on the Treasure Coast of Florida are either Hispanic-owned or employ Hispanics

Did You Know? Immigrants filed 46,884 citizenship petitions in Florida during the first four months of 2007, a 75 percent increase from the same period last year

May 23, 2007

Did You Know? Cuban-born immigrants represent over 680,000 people, or 21.1 percent of Floridas immigrants

March 26, 2007

Did You Know? Between 1988 and 2005, the number of full-time Hispanic faculty increased from 35 to 107 at the University of Florida

January 25, 2007

Did You Know? Only about three in 10 eligible Hispanics in Central Florida voted in 2006