A Latino middle-class challenge
By ESTHER CEPEDA Thursday, March 31, 2011

CHICAGO — When the U.S. Census Bureau released its population estimates from the nation’s 2010 headcount, Hispanics across the country rejoiced in the power of their numbers.

The 50.5 million Latinos accounted for 56 percent of the nation’s growth—mostly from births, not immigration—between 2000 to 2010. Adult Hispanics are now one in every six Americans, and almost one in every four children is Hispanic. Now the largest minority group, Latinos are well on their way to comprising one-third of the U.S. population in 2050.

But as every “Spider-Manâ€