Watch The President’s Answers to Hispanic Roundtable Questions (VIDEO)
Yesterday, President Obama answered questions on a vast range of subjects important to Latinos, asked by a panel of representatives from three Hispanic online media outlets.
President Obama talked about a range of issues from immigration and education to Social Security and the American Jobs Act during a round table discussion with Jose Siade from Yahoo Español, Karine Medina from MSN Latino and Gabriel Lerner from AOL Latino and Huff-Post Latino Voices.
The group joined the President in the White House Map Room for an hour-long conversation that centered on the questions submitted to the Hispanic roundtable around issues that matter most to Latinos.
Take a look at the video below where President Obama answers the following questions:
Latino Children Are Living in Poverty More than Any Other Racial or Ethnic Group
The spread of poverty across the United States that began at the onset of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 and accelerated last year hit one fast-growing demographic group especially hard: Latino children. This information is being provided by the report, “Childhood Poverty Among Hispanics Sets Record, Leads Nation,” by Pew Hispanic Center.
More Latino children are living in poverty——6.1 million in 2010——than children of any other racial or ethnic group. This marks the first time in U.S. history that the single largest group of poor children is not white. In 2010,