Full Episode: May 18, 2012
Panelists discuss new data showing more than half of new births in the U.S. are to minorities. Then, we turn to women in combat as the U.S. Army opens positions for women on the front lines. And, behind the headlines: American foreign service officers in China.
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Panelists discuss new data showing more than half of new births in the U.S. are to minorities. Then, we turn to women in combat as the U.S. Army opens positions for women on the front lines. And, behind the headlines: American foreign service officers in China.
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Panelists on the impact a minority majority has on the U.S.:
"The longer you're in this country and the more middle class you become, the fewer children you have. It's already happening to Hispanics."
"The longer you're in this country and the more middle class you become, the fewer children you have. It's already happening to Hispanics."
~ Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)~
"For a long time, we've said that's a Hispanic or Black issue. No, now it's all of our issue. How we educate those students is how the country is going to change in the next 100 years."
~Politic365 Senior Editor Alicia Menendez~
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