The Emerging Economic Value of Spanish in the US

Posted on Sunday, November 13

International Symposium:
Economic Growth Through Pan-Hispanic Cooperation:

The Emerging Economic Value of Spanish in the U.S.

This symposium will offer a forum for discussion about the demographic change that the United States is experiencing due to the unprecedented growth of the Hispanic population.  The opportunity for greater cooperation and commerce is driven in part by the dramatic growth of the use of the Spanish language in the United States, to the point where there are now approximately 36 million people in the country who speak it.  Spanish is the second language of international communication in the world.  Right now, 1 in 6 residents of the United States is Hispanic; 1 in 5 public school students is Hispanic and 1 in 4 children born in the United States is Hispanic.  By 2025, over half of American families will be multicultural. By 2050, the United States will be the largest Spanish speaking country in the world.  According to estimates made by the U.S. Census Bureau, 132.8 million inhabitants will be Hispanic by 2050, almost three times the current 46.7 million, which means nearly one in three American citizens will be Hispanic.

A new corporate paradigm will have to evolve to address this emerging consumer mosaic and help keep the United States on the crest of this wave of demographic change.

Thursday, December 8, 2011
3:30 P.M. -  9 P.M. CST

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