Slight declines in the overall U.S. poverty rate mask large increases among Hispanic and black infants. From 2016 to 2017, the percentage of Hispanic infants (under age 1) living in poverty in the United States increased by more than a third (from 21 percent to 29 percent), according to recent analysis of Census estimates from Child Trends . […]

In this edition of Hispanic Family Facts, we highlight our research on how low-income Hispanic parents support their young sons’ academic skills at home prior to entering kindergarten. Center Co-investigator Natasha Cabrera and her colleagues find that many low-income Hispanic parents engage in activities that support the literacy of their young boys, including having books […]

As a new school year begins, children across the country enter their classrooms with a wide range of skills. Recent research led by Christina Padilla and Natasha Cabrera finds that although low-income Latino children begin school, on average, with fewer academic skills than their white peers, they have the interpersonal and behavioral skills needed to […]

Latino families have historically lived and settled in communities in Southwestern states, such as Texas and California, and large gateway cities, such as Los Angeles. The Hispanic population continues to grow in these communities. However, since the 2000s, have seen particularly rapid growth in their Hispanic populations (emerging communities). In our brief, “The Changing Geography […]

Father’s Day encourages us to think about how dads make a difference in children’s lives. The National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families has been working to improve our understanding of Hispanic fathers—a group that has been understudied to date. Our recent work finds that most Hispanic fathers are: immigrants Spanish-dominant speakers married or […]