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Subject: disturbing stats (but you probably already know)

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tony morejon

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Date Posted: 14:12:13 07/10/02 Wed

LULAC leaders cited a raft of disturbing statistics. Among them:

� The high school dropout rate for Latino children is estimated by the U.S. Department of Education to be about 33.5 per cent.

� In 1998, only 56 percent of eligible Hispanics registered to vote, and of those, just 39 percent went to the polls, according to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.

� Workplace fatalities among Hispanics rose by 53 percent between 1992 and 2000, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. At least 815 Hispanics died on the job in 2000.

� Since 1994, Hispanic homeownership has lagged whites by 29 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Black homeownership lagged whites by 27.5 percent during the same period.

� Hispanics, 12.5 percent of the U.S. population, account for 20 percent of new HIV infections and 17 percent of AIDS-related deaths, according to a recent Institute of Medicine report to Congress.

� Between 1990 and 1996, Hispanic women saw their median real wage decline by 3 percent, from $330 to $320 per week, according to the National Council of La Raza.

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