White children nearly a minority in AMERICA

Statistics recently released from the USA's Census Bureau have shown how demographics in the U.S. are changing. The figures show that white children in the country are set to become a minority within the next year or two. It was revealed that currently, 49.9% of American children under the age of five are from non-white backgrounds. Asians and Hispanics will soon become the new majority ethnic groups in the country.
The Bureau gave two main reasons for this trend. One is that birth rates among minority populations are growing faster than those in the white community, especially in the Hispanic community. The second is the steady number of immigrants arriving in America
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The Bureau also reported that for the first time ever, deaths outnumbered births among whites, in the period between July 2011 and July 2012. During this time, the Hispanic population grew by 2.2 per cent and the number of Asians rose by 2.9 per cent.
Mark Hugo Lopez from the Pew Hispanic Centre says the changes in the make-up of the U.S. population will have a global impact. He said: "The U.S. Hispanic population is second only to Mexico's." He noted that the current U.S. Latino population is larger than those in Peru, Colombia and Spain. He added: "That's something which has an incredible implication not only in the U.S., but as part of a larger Hispanic world."

Interesting words: 

1. statistic: a set of numbers which represent facts or measurements:
2. demographic: information about a group such as the people who live in a particular area:
3. minority: a small group of people or things within a much larger group; a group of people of a different race, religion etc from most other people in that country
4. Hispanics: someone who comes from a country where Spanish or Portuguese is spoken, especially one in Latin America 
5. outnumber: to be more in number than another group
6. implication: a possible future effect or result of an action, event, decision etc
7. incredible: extremely good, large, or great

Exercises: 

1. TRUE / FALSE:Read the headline. Guess if  a-h  below are true (T) or false (F).

a.	A census predicts white kids in the U.S. will be a minority in 20 years.	T / F
b.	49.9% of American kids under five are from non-white backgrounds.	T / F
c.	Afro-Americans will soon become the new majority ethnic group.	T / F
d.	Immigration has little to do with the changing demographics.	T / F
e.	More whites died than were born in the year to July 2012.	T / F
f.	The Asian population in the U.S. grew faster than the Hispanic one.	T / F
g.	The Latino population in the USA outnumbers that in Spain.	T / F
h.	A man said the US's Hispanic population won't impact the wider world.	T / F

2. SYNONYM MATCH:Match the following synonyms from the article.

1.	released	a.	presently
2	within	b.	consequence
3.	currently	c.	in history
4.	trend	d.	issued
5.	steady	e.	effect
6.	ever	f.	swing
7.	during	g.	pointed out
8.	impact	h.	inside
9.	noted	i.	in the course of
10.	implication	j.	consistent