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The state's growing Latino population increasingly will have unprecedented impact on Arizona's workforce, education, leadership and ability to compete economically.
The Latino Public Policy Center at Morrison Institute uses various venues, formats and publications to improve Arizona's understanding of Latino-related opportunities and challenges, and how resulting public policy decisions will affect Arizona's future for all.
Using credible data, analysis and projections, the nonpartisan Latino Public Policy Center operates under the auspices of Morrison Institute for Public Policy, a trusted brand since 1982.
Because "Latino issues" are "Arizona issues," inseparable in determining our state's future. Arizona is expected to become a minority-majority state perhaps by 2030 – some 15 years before the rest of the nation – with its younger citizens largely Latino. Eighty-two percent of the state's Latino youth under age 20 are naturalized citizens or were born in the United States. For Arizona Latino children under 5 years old, 97 percent are U.S. citizens. Latinos are Arizonans.
With our state's workforce, electorate, economic drivers and leadership largely affected and dependent on informed public policy as it relates to Arizona Latino citizens, Morrison Institute established a new center to house related articles, analysis, videos, blogs and polls, as well as further the dialogue through presentations and forums.
Morrison Institute Latino Public Policy Center was launched in October 2012 with a mission to provide a better understanding of how Latino public policy issues affect all of Arizona and our shared future opportunity.