{"id":48051,"date":"2016-07-03T02:08:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T02:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48051"},"modified":"2016-07-03T02:08:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T02:08:29","slug":"babies-of-color-are-now-the-majority-census-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48051","title":{"rendered":"Babies Of Color Are Now The Majority, Census Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/ed\/2016\/07\/01\/484325664\/babies-of-color-are-now-the-majority-census-says\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Babies Of Color Are Now The Majority, Census Says<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\n2016-07-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kendrayoshinaga\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kendra Yoshinaga<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s generation of schoolchildren looks much different than one just a few decades ago. Nonwhites are expected to become the majority of the nation&#8217;s children by 2020, as our colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/14562108\/bill-chappell\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Chappell<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2015\/03\/04\/390672196\/for-u-s-children-minorities-will-be-the-majority-by-2020-census-says\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> last year. This is now the reality among the very youngest Americans: babies.<\/p>\n<p>Babies of color now outnumber non-Hispanic white babies (1 year or younger), according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/popest\/data\/national\/asrh\/2015\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">new estimates<\/a> from the U.S. Census Bureau. The newest estimate shows that on July 1, 2015, the population of racial or ethnic minority babies was 50.2 percent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;NPR could not reach any babies for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/ed\/2016\/07\/01\/484325664\/babies-of-color-are-now-the-majority-census-says\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babies Of Color Are Now The Majority, Census Says National Public Radio 2016-07-01 Kendra Yoshinaga Today&#8217;s generation of schoolchildren looks much different than one just a few decades ago. Nonwhites are expected to become the majority of the nation&#8217;s children by 2020, as our colleague Bill Chappell reported last year. This is now the reality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,20],"tags":[24347,2309,2833],"class_list":["post-48051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-kendra-yoshinaga","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48052,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48051\/revisions\/48052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}