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U.S. Latinos would be world's 5th-largest economy

NPR

Published October 28, 2022 at 12:33 PM EDT

The U.S. Latino community is a lucrative demographic group that is becoming more and more valuable. New research has found that if it was its own country, the U.S.’s Latino population would have the fifth-largest economy in the world.

Public Radio’s Roben Farzad joins Here & Now‘s Celeste Headlee to unpack the data and explain its significance.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.