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Overall, the Spanish-speaking community in Indiana is the most rapidly growing segment of the state's population. Given the 117 percent increase in the Latino community from 1990-2000, Spanish-speaking residents will represent the leading minority group in Indiana within a few short years. To strengthen Indiana's workplace environment, Ball State University offers occupational Spanish language training for a variety of sectors.
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We will be holding Community Spanish: A Survival Guide for English Speakers this spring.
September 17, 24, October 1 and 8, 2008
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Outreach Services Site
Fishers, Indiana
Cost of the program is $195
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Hispanics Now One-Seventh of U.S. PopulationOne of every seven people in the United States is Hispanic, a number likely to keep going up because of immigration and a birth rate outstripping non-Hispanic African Americans and whites. There are 41.3 million Hispanics in the United States, the Census Bureau reported.
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Statistics show...
- Nationally, the Spanish-speaking community grew 9 percent from 2000-2002.
- Indiana's Spanish-speaking community is the most rapidly growing segment of the state's population.
- More than 19,000 new Hispanics have settled in Indiana in the last two years.
- Some communities have seen a growth rate of more than 200 percent since the last census.
- Some sectors are federally mandated to have bilingual translators on staff.
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