US Hispanics are using the Internet more than ever. New surveys reveal that 50% of the 22 million Hispanic adults in the US have Internet access.

• The Latino Internet population is growing twice as fast as the white Internet population on a percentage basis.
• The number of Hispanics online has jumped by 25 percent over the last year alone.
• The percentage of Hispanics online lags behind the 58 percent of whites online. But their number exceeds the 43 percent of Blacks on the web.
• Latinos are just as involved with online banking as whites; about 12 percent of Latinos have dabbled in stock trading online compared to 13 percent for whites and 10 percent for African Americans; 41 percent have purchased goods or services online, compared to 49 percent of whites and 40 percent of African Americans.

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Charges of harassment at work based on race or national origin have more than doubled, to nearly 9,000 a year, since 1990, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

• Legal damage awards are rising nearly as quickly. Most recently, the EEOC announced a $635,000 racial discrimination settlement against Salomon Smith Barney, a subsidiary of Citigroup.

A new demographic study reveals that young, urban Hispanics (18-34) are generally wealthier than all other ethnic groups--including Caucasians. 14.3% have household incomes above $50,000, whereas the national average is 13.6%.

Hector Barreto, the son of a Mexican immigrant, is named the new administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Despite the fact that Hispanics are online in record numbers, many large-scale Latino-oriented Web sites are struggling to survive

• For example, El Sitio announced a 1-for-10 reverse share split in an effort to enable it to comply with the minimum share price requirements of The Nasdaq.

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