# Census shows whites lose US majority among babies

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**Created:** [June 27, 2011, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/census-shows-whites-lose-us-majority-among-babies/587004 "2011-06-27T05:51:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/census-shows-whites-lose-us-majority-among-babies/587004/1 "2011-06-27T05:51:29Z")

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On the cards for a while now. Heh @ this bit about education. Should have thought about that earlier.

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> “The recent emergence of this cultural generation gap in states with fast growth of young Hispanics has spurred heated discussions of immigration and the use of government services,” Frey said. “But the new census, which will show a minority majority of our youngest Americans, makes plain that our future labor force is absolutely dependent on our ability to integrate and educate a new diverse child population.”

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> The report, issued June 23 by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) shows that while scores have gone up for both groups, Hispanic students lag by the same amount today as they did in 1990, which means that the achievement gap between Hispanic and white students has been largely unchanged for the past two decades.

[http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2079429,00.html](http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2079429,00.html)