Pew Research Center reports that “Hispanics Account for Half of U.S. Population Growth Since 2000…”

To add further evidence to the importance that bilingual and bicultural education will have in the future of our country the Pew Research Center’s “Pew Hispanic Center“ today released a new report that shows that since 2000 Hispanics accounted for half of the U.S. population growth.  In a very nice interactive map that is available on their web site once can see that Travis County exhibited the 18th fastest growth rate for in terms of net Hispanic population growth.