Biden Mangles Statistic About Hispanic Students
by Robert Farley
May 10, 2024
3 minutes
Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de El Tiempo Latino.
According to the Department of Education, about 28% of U.S. students are Hispanic. According to Census Bureau data, about 15% of U.S. students speak Spanish at home. And about 21% of students come from homes where at least one person speaks Spanish.
Three different statistics. Three different numbers.
But in remarks to Latino audiences whose votes he hopes to win, President Joe Biden routinely conflates these statistics, sometimes in the course of the same speech or interview.
For example, in at a Cinco de Mayo
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