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

April 13, 2009

Hispanic spending growing in Carolinas – Hispanics are currently the second biggest spenders in North Carolina, accounting for 9.4% of total buying dollars.

July 22, 2008

Did You Know? Voter registration jumps in North Carolina – 10,000 identify themselves as Hispanic — a 25 percent increase in this new category.

November 4, 2007

Did You Know? In North Carolina, the state with the biggest percentage of Latino growth during the 1990s, just 41 percent of Mexicans are U.S. citizens, and there has been no increase since 2000 in the number of Mexican-Americans who have become citizens through naturalization.

September 15, 2007

Did You Know? Hispanics in the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson and Madison counties, had $214.6 million in buying power, created 2,300 spinoff jobs, resulted in $54.9 million in spinoff labor income and generated $10.1 million in state taxes in 2004 – North Carolina

August 9, 2007

Did You Know? While the male-to-female ratio among Triangle Hispanics is about 60-to-40, Hispanic women are arriving at a faster rate in Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Johnston, Orange and Wake counties. – North Carolina

April 29, 2007

Did You Know? Of 1,810 troopers in the North Carolina Highway Patrol, 10 speak Spanish fluently. The patrol is the largest law enforcement agency in a state that saw its Hispanic population increase by more than 40 percent from 2000 to 2005

March 14, 2007

Did You Know? The cost of treating the emergency health-care needs of recent and illegal immigrants made up less than 1 percent of the overall spending on Medicaid in North Carolina each year studied

February 1, 2007

Did You Know? Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System has almost 17,500 Hispanic students, about 14 percent of its student body. – North Carolina

January 17, 2007

Did You Know? Between 1990 to 2006, the buying power of North Carolina’s Hispanics increased 1,042 percent