The 2012 KIDS COUNT - Puerto Rico Data Book is an effort to collect and analyze child-focused data every year with the purpose of improving the well-being of Puerto Rico's youth. It provides statistical information on the ...

Latino families, like millions of others across the United States, do their best to put nutritious food on their tables every day, but the healthiest foods are too often unaffordable or inaccessible.  Many Americans struggle ...

The report details the inadequacy of information on Hispanic youth, who constitute one of the fastest-growing segments of the population, and highlights this lack of data as a major barrier to developing strategies and ...

Two of the biggest stories to emerge from the 2010 Census have been the growing diversity of America's youth population and the critical role that today's minority children will play in our nation's future.  Over the past ...

This paper analyzes the impact on Latino youth of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, the primary law guiding federal juvenile justice policy. Latino youth would substantially benefit from reforms to the ...

As Latino children and youth continue to drive the growth of the Latino community and the nation as a whole, these publications provide an overview of the most pressing issues for this population as they were addressed at ...

This document highlights proposed funding for Latino priority programs in the federal budget.

Latinos* compose a growing share of all poor children in the U.S. In 2011, there were 15.5 million poor children in the U.S. and 5.8 million (37.5%) were Hispanic. The projection is that this share will continue to grow.

The report, America’s Future: Latino Child Well-Being in Numbers and Trends, was coauthored by the Population Reference Bureau and integrates a range of key factors and outcomes in demography, citizenship, family structure ...

A Wake-Up Call: Latino Youth Speak Out About Arizona SB 1070 , is a short publication summarizing the outcome of a forum held during the Líderes Summit at the NCLR 2010 Annual Conference with 150 Latino youth leaders about ...