Approximately 22 million Latinos representing 9% of the total population are currently living in the United States1 and Latinos are expected to be the largest minority group early in this century.2 One third of the nation's Latino population lives in California,3 and 60% of this 7.7 million are foreign born.4, 5 By 2007 slightly more than one third of California's population is expected to be Latino.5