More than two-thirds of students graduating from college in the United States this year say that concerns about an uncertain economy will affect their job prospects, according to a study released by Accenture.
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Santiago and Sofia as most popular Hispanic Baby names of 2007.
BabyCenter en Español, the leading online resource in Spanish for new and expectant parents, today unveiled a new first – the Top 10 Hispanic Baby Names of 2007. The list was derived from names submitted on BabyCenter en Español by moms who had babies in 2006 and 2007 and are expecting in 2008.
La Negrita: Finding Oneself Through Acculturation.
The stereotypical story of US Hispanics is that of a Mexican running across the Border or that of a Cuban risking their life on a shabby raft for a better life in the U.S. They are often depicted as running behind trucks in hopes of scoring a job in manual labor or they are portrayed as single mothers with no education, no job and a handful of children. Even my parents’ story can fit right into the American stereotype of Hispanics. My mother’s struggle as a five year old girl who only spoke Spanish when she moved to the United States and had to grow up in a home with her mother who could barely pay the bills on her own and eight of her other siblings some of who she had to help raise is very stereotypical as well as my father who came to America in his twenties and struggled to get by, got his citizenship thirty years later and til this day barely knows English. By Jacqueline Palmer – Florida State University
Census: First Comprehensive Atlas.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the U.S. Census Bureau’s new Census Atlas of the United States speaks volumes about how the nation’s population and housing characteristics have changed over the years. The atlas, with more than 700 full-color maps, is the first general population and housing statistical atlas published by the Census Bureau since 1925.
