its social organization. >> reporter: bobby hicks has lived the change. >> it felt like... it felt like it went from here to here. >> reporter: here? what's up there? >> this is where life is right now, and this is where i am. >> reporter: so the top of the income distribution has grown by leaps and bounds as you say and you're stuck in the same place? >> i'm still right down here, yeah, absolutely. >> reporter: cookie, are you better off than you were say 15 years ago? >> i haven't changed from then to now. there are days that i walk to work because i couldn't afford $1.25 to get on the bus. there are days that i sacrifice a meal because i want to make sure my children eat. so no, it has not changed at all and it only gets worse. >> reporter: gets worse for these and many other americans, while getting better for the relatively few at the top. >> brown: and finally tonight, to another aspect of a changing america: ray suarez looks at the newest census data. >> suarez: racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 90% of growth in the u.s. over the past decade and hispanics we