all the benefits of being a minority today? Like free housing, free education, free med care, moving to the head of the hiring lines etc.?
By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer
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Wed Dec 16, 5:51 pm ET
WASHINGTON
– The estimated time when whites will no longer make up the majority of
Americans has been pushed back eight years — to 2050 — because the
recession and stricter immigration policies have slowed the flow of foreigners into the U.S.
Census Bureau figures
released Wednesday update last year's prediction that white children
would become a minority in 2023 and the overall white population would
follow in 2042. The earlier estimate did not take into account a drop
in the number of people moving into the U.S. because of the economic crisis and the immigration policies imposed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks
