mark lopez, what about this education. how much disparity is there when it comes to education and how much difference does it make? >> well, we talk about latinos, latinos have lower levels of educational attainment on the whole, particularly when we talk about young latinos. you really see this when it comes it to the high school dropout rate. young hispanics are two to three times more likely to not have graduated from high school or have a high school diploma than other people in the united states. when you talk about going to college or college attainment, hispanics continue to lag behind other groups in terms of college a tanlt and getting a bachelor's degree. >> woodruff: what about the matter of age that algernon mentiod. >> for latinos one of the interesting characteristics is that while there are 47, 48 million hispanics in the u.s. the median age is 27, for whites it's more like 40. so there is a tremendous difference in the age distribution for hispanic, many under the age of 18 and haven't enterentered the labo