This article discusses the education and health care needs of Hispanics in Texas in the context of the state's predicted population boom; in the next three decades Texas' population is expected to double. The article points to current drop-out rates and economic hardship, including lack of access to adequate health insurance, among Texas Hispanics which could pose even graver problems in the future as the state's population grows.

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The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and six other components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced contracts totaling $61 million over 6 ½ years to conduct the largest long-term epidemiological study of health and disease in Latin American populations living in the United States.

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