Top Image: The familiar Uncle Sam drawing urges Spanish speakers to support the war. “I’m at Northeastern right now - I’m only here because there was a good financial aid package, and even so it was extremely expensive,' said Robert, the Brooklyn teen. One of the biggest issues is college costs, complicated by the fact that Latino families, which generally started the Great Recession with less net worth than other ethnic groups, lost 66 percent of their household wealth during this period. Just 17.2 percent of Hispanic adults have a bachelor's degree and 5 percent an advanced degree, compared to 38.1 percent and 14.3 percent of non-Hispanic whites, according to the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. Yet they lag behind other groups in pursing higher education.

Additionally, 67 percent of Latinos ages 25 and older had earned a high school degree. On the one hand, a record number of young Latinos, 3.6 million in 2016, are attending college, and their share is growing, according to Pew. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Great Recession and the debate over immigration, “simply guides a lot of attitudes and policy preferences.” This includes their views on the economy, the role of government in providing opportunities and how to deal with a lack of access to health insurance. Ross, an assistant professor at Texas A&M University - Rouse argues that millennials' diversity, combined with growing up amid the Sept. In her new book, “The Politics of Millennials' - written with Ashley D. The diversity has found its way into politics and policy making and is likely to give a distinct shape to how the country addresses major issues.

history, according to Stella Rouse, a University of Maryland political scientist. Young adults under 35 are already the most diverse generation in U.S. White millennials' experience was the polar opposite to Latinos: Fifty percent said they did not know anyone at risk of being deported. A survey of millennials released in January found that 49 percent of millennial Latinos worried a lot that a family member or close friend could be deported, compared to 25 percent of Asian Americans and 21 percent of African-Americans.

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