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- <title>
- Dec. 02, 1993: The Numbers Game
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Dec. 02, 1993 Special Issue:The New Face Of America
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- SPECIAL ISSUE:THE NEW FACE OF AMERICA
- The Numbers Game, Page 14
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Altogether the foreign born had a higher per capita income than
- the native born ($15,033 vs. $14,367) in 1989, but their median
- family income was almost $4,000 less than that of the native
- born ($31,785 vs. $35,508).
- </p>
- <p> IN 1940, 70% OF IMMIGRANTS CAME FROM EUROPE. IN 1992, 15% CAME
- FROM EUROPE, 37% FROM ASIA AND 44% FROM LATIN AMERICA AND THE
- CARIBBEAN.
- </p>
- <p> In 1976 there were 67 Spanish-speaking radio stations. Now there
- are 311, plus 3 Spanish-language TV networks and 350 Spanish-language
- newspapers.
- </p>
- <p> 32 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE U.S. (13%) SPEAK LANGUAGES OTHER THAN
- ENGLISH AT HOME.
- </p>
- <p> JAPANESE AMERICANS marry non-Japanese Americans about 65% of
- the time, an out-marriage rate so high that since 1981 the number
- of babies born in the U.S. with one white parent has exceeded
- the number with two Japanese parents.
- </p>
- <p> Americans use 68% more spices today than a decade ago. The consumption
- of red pepper rose 105%, basil 190%.
- </p>
- <p> 88% of African-born residents had a high school education or
- higher in 1990, compared with 76% of Asian-born, 57% of Caribbean-born
- and 77% of native-born.
- </p>
- <p> Seven out of 10 residents of Hialeah, Fla., are foreign-born.
- Other cities where more than half the population is foreign-born:
- </p>
- <p> Miami, Fla. 60%
- </p>
- <p> Huntington Park, Calif. 59%
- </p>
- <p> Union City, N.J. 55%
- </p>
- <p> Monterey Park, Calif. 52%
- </p>
- <p> Miami Beach, Fla., Santa Ana, Calif. 51% each
- </p>
- <p> The unemployment rate for the foreign born was 7.8% in 1990,
- compared with 6.2% for the native born.
- </p>
- <p> More than 100 languages are spoken in the school systems of
- New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Fairfax County, Va.
- </p>
- <p> In 1990 the population was: Anglo 76%, Black 12%, Latino 9%,
- Asian 3%. By 2050 the breakdown is projected to be: Anglo 52%,
- Black 16%, Latino 22%, Asian 10%.
- </p>
- <p> IN 1990 THERE WERE MORE EUROPEAN DESCENDANTS--including German,
- Irish, English, French, Dutch, Scots-Irish, Scottish, Swedish,
- Welsh and Danish, Portuguese, British and Swiss--living in
- California than in any other state. New York led in the number
- of Italians, Poles and Russians; Minnesota in Norwegians; Texas
- in Czechs; Pennsylvania in Slovaks; and Ohio in Hungarians.
- </p>
- <p> The foreign-born population in 1990 totaled a record 19.8 million
- (8%), surpassing previous highs of 14 million in 1930 and 1980.
- </p>
- <p> Since 1901, 30% of the U.S. Nobel prize-winners have been immigrants.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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