The Boys Initiative’s Minority Male Youth 2050 project aimed at addressing issue
Washington, DC – May 17, 2012 –  Today the Census Bureau released a set of estimates showing that for the first time 50.4 percent of our nation's population younger than age 1 were minorities as of July 1, 2011. This is up from 49.5 percent from the 2010 Census taken April 1, 2010. A minority is anyone who is not single-race non-Hispanic white.

At the same time, achievement is declining among minority males. Today among males, only 28% of African Americans, 24% of Native Americans and Pacific Islanders and 16% of Latinos have at least an associate degree.

“This is a ticking economic time-bomb,” said Dennis Barbour, co-founder of The Boys Initiative . “We have known for some time now that this tipping point was coming. And we have known, because of it, that a well-educated and healthy work...