What the Latino Population Boom Means to American Society | Diversity Best Practices

What the Latino Population Boom Means to American Society | Diversity Best Practices: "If the United States' Latino population represented a single country, it would the second largest Spanish-speaking nation in the world. And this number will continue to accelerate as one in four babies born in the U.S. today are Latinos.

So reveals one of the major headlines from the 2010 Census as it documents the contours of the explosion of the Latino population. At 50 million strong, Hispanics are changing American culture in ways both predicted and unexpected. This growth and the attendant changes are happening much faster than anticipated. Instead of Latinos becoming 25% of the population by 2040, as originally projected, updated forecasts expect that milestone to occur by 2025.Fifteen years earlier"