Princeton, NJ--In July 2001, U.S. Census data showed that Hispanics surpassed blacks as the largest minority group in the United States.

Hispanics make up about 14% of the U.S. population today and the Census Bureau predicts that, based on continued immigration and birth rates, they will constitute 25% by 2050.

"Forty-nine percent of Hispanics say they attend services once a week or almost every week and another 17% attend at least once a month."

"One-third of Hispanics (32%) say they seldom or never attend church."

• "Looking at an aggregate from surveys conducted in 2004,
  • 44% of Americans say they attend once a week or almost every week and
  • 10% attend at least once a month;
  • 41% say they seldom or never attend.
  • Hispanics are slightly less likely than the overall population to say they seldom or never attend. 
    

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• The growth of the Hispanic American population has exceeded even the boldest projections of demographic experts.
• Between 1970 and 2000, the Hispanic population grew by 25.7 MILLION (from 9.6 million to 35.3 million).
• Hispanics have spread throughout the country faster than any previous immigrant group.
• Hispanics are not only growing in the Established Areas (e.g., Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Miami), but are going to “New Destinations,” areas where they had not concentrated in large numbers in the past (e.g., Atlanta) 
• Today 54% of all Hispanics live in the suburbs
• Hispanic men outnumber Hispanic women by 17% in the new Hispanic Destination Metro Areas (Male immigrants arrive first, families then follow).

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• The majority of children were rated by their teachers or parents as "often" or "very often" showing self-control (71 percent and 57 percent, respectively, for the teacher and parent ratings). 
• The percentage of children who "often" or "very often" showed self-control, according to the parent rating, increased within each socioeconomic and demographic subgroup of children.
• The percentages of non-Hispanic black and Hispanic children rated by their teachers as "often" or "very often" exhibiting self-control did not change between kindergarten entry and the end of first grade.
• Nearly nine out of ten children (87 percent) had teachers who rated them as "usually" or "always" working to the best of their ability by the end of first grade.
• The percentage of children who were engaged in school at the end of kindergarten was 89 percent. 
• In kindergarten and in first grade, slightly more than one in ten children were overweight