The Hispanic population living in the United States is growing at the slowest rate since official record-keeping began nearly 50 years ago, according to a report released Thursday.
Hispanics grew by an average of more than 5% annually throughout the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, driving much of the population growth in the country. But according to a new report from the Pew Research Center, that number started falling in 2007 with the Great Recession and continued to slide to a record-low 2.1% growth rate in 2014.
