Babies Of Color Are Now The Majority, Census SaysPosted in Articles, Census/Demographics, Media Archive, United States on 2016-07-03 02:08Z by Steven |
Babies Of Color Are Now The Majority, Census Says
National Public Radio
2016-07-01
Today’s generation of schoolchildren looks much different than one just a few decades ago. Nonwhites are expected to become the majority of the nation’s children by 2020, as our colleague Bill Chappell reported last year. This is now the reality among the very youngest Americans: babies.
Babies of color now outnumber non-Hispanic white babies (1 year or younger), according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The newest estimate shows that on July 1, 2015, the population of racial or ethnic minority babies was 50.2 percent…
…NPR could not reach any babies for comment.
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