Fact Sheet: President Obama and the Hispanic Community
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THE
Fact Sheet:
The President believes that if you work hard and play by the rules, you should have the opportunity to succeed, and your ability to get ahead should be determined by your hard work, ambition, and goals -- not by the circumstances of your birth.
The President's top priority remains ensuring middle class Americans feel secure in their jobs, homes and budgets. To build real, lasting economic security, the President will work with
Since taking office, every issue the
The President believes that our country was built on and continues to thrive on its diversity. The President knows that the success of the Hispanic community is directly tied to the success of our nation. If Hispanics thrive, our entire nation will thrive.
Strengthening Our Economy: Jobs and economic security are central to Latino families. The President's top priority remains ensuring middle class Americans feel secure in their jobs, homes and budgets. The President is also directing investment toward American manufacturing, infrastructure, and American workers to ensure our workers are competitive in the global economy.
Ensuring Access to Quality Educational Opportunities for Hispanic Students: The future of our nation is inextricably linked to the future of the Hispanic community. Hispanics are the largest and fastest-growing minority group in our nation's schools and
*The number of Hispanic students enrolled in college jumped by 45 percent from 2008 to 2012, with over a million Hispanic students enrolled today.
*Right now, our high school graduation rate is the highest it's been in 30 years, and the Latino dropout rate has been cut in half since 2000.
*The President's budget has made key investments in early learning programs, such as Preschool for All,
*Approximately 21 percent of the children served in federally-supported child care programs are Latinos, as are 37 percent of participants in
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Ensuring Young People have the Opportunity to Reach Their Full Potential: The President is expanding opportunities for all young people to succeed.
*Creating Opportunities for Boys and Young Men of Color: The President unveiled the "My Brother's Keeper" initiative to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color -- including Latinos -- to ensure that all young people can reach their full potential. As part of the initiative's launch, the President also established the My Brother's
*Strengthening the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics: Educational achievement gaps also continue to exist for Hispanic girls. In 2010,
*Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Students: Parenting at any age can be challenging, but it can be particularly difficult for adolescent parents. Across the country, teen pregnancy rates are at historic lows and pregnancy rates for Hispanic teens have seen a dramatic recent decline. From 2007 to 2012, the teen birth rate declined by 39 percent for Hispanics. First proposed by
Ensuring Access to Affordable Health Care: The Affordable Care Act is making health care more accessible and affordable for Latinos who were previously locked out or priced out of quality health insurance. Millions of Latinos have already gained coverage through
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*8.8 million Latinos with private insurance now have access to expanded preventive services with no cost sharing.
*913,000 Latino young adults between ages 19-25 were able to stay on a parent's insurance.
*An estimated 4.9 million Latinas with private health insurance now have guaranteed access to women's preventive services without cost sharing.
Raising the Minimum Wage to
*It is long past due to increase the minimum wage that will lift millions of hardworking families out of poverty and in the process produce a ripple effect that boosts wages for the middle class and spurs economic growth in the U.S.
*Raising the minimum wage will make sure no family of four with a full-time worker has to raise their children in poverty. It has been seven years since
Fixing Our Broken Immigration System:
*Two years ago, the
*At the same time, DHS is focusing its limited enforcement resources on key priorities, including national security, border security and public safety threats such as convicted criminals.
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Protecting Civil Rights: The
*Protecting Voting Rights: The Division's Voting Section's unrivaled enforcement activity has spanned all of the voting rights laws that the Department enforces. For example, the Division has vigorously enforced a number of important protections for language minorities, so that eligible citizens are not precluded from full and equal participation in the electoral process based on their language ability. This includes litigation or settlement agreements to protect Spanish-speaking voters in
*Expanding Access to Courts for People with Limited English Proficiency: Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, recipients of federal financial assistance, including state courts that receive funds from the
*Protecting the Civil Rights of all Women, including Women of Color: The
Addressing Climate Change: Climate change poses serious threats to the Hispanic community, endangering the health and livelihood of millions of Latinos in the US. With climate change comes increased ozone pollution that worsens air quality in Hispanic communities -- who are already struggling with disproportionately high asthma rates. Today, Latino children are 40 percent more likely to die from asthma than white children. While
Ensuring Affordable and Secure Homeownership: One of the cornerstones of what it means to be middle class is a home to call your own, and the President is committed to helping responsible homeowners, including millions of Latinos -- save
Funding Culturally and Linguistically Specific Programs to Help Women of Color who Have Experienced Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault: More than one-third of Hispanic women have been the victim of rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime. Under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the
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Addressing Human Trafficking: Human trafficking victims are disproportionately minority girls. Over the past five years, working with the
Partnering With Communities to Expand Opportunity: Announced in last year's State of the Union Address, as part of the President's plan to create a better bargain for the middle class partners businesses with hard-hit local communities to put people back to work and increase opportunity by creating "Promise Zones," many of which are in cities with high Hispanic populations.
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*The first five Promise Zones, located in
Promoting the Growth and Global Competiveness of Minority Business -
*Hispanic-owned businesses are one of the fastest growing in the nation and the number of Hispanic-owned businesses increased nearly 44 percent to 2.3 million between 2002 and 2007, more than twice the national average of all U.S. businesses. The total number of U.S. businesses during the same period increased 18 percent to 27.1 million.
Building A
Deepening Connections between the People of the
Increasing Diversity to Ensure the Federal Government Better Reflects the Face of America:
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