Plot Synopsis

Hosted by by award-winning reporter, author, news anchor, and executive producer Maria Hinojosa, AMERICA BY THE NUMBERS is a half-hour series that focuses on news stories that are often under-reported in the mainstream media: health disparities in the U.S. as viewed through the lens of infant mortality; military service by residents from the non-voting territories of the Pacific Islands; the impact of a domestic oil boom on Native American lands; and the high dropout rate in Asian American refugee communities. Each 30-minute episode focuses on a different story, amplified by the numbers -- a distillation of the latest statistical information about population, health, education, quality of life, and consumer trends in America. Stories include: the original pilot episode, which explores the new multicultural mainstream through a portrait of Clarkston, Georgia, home to over 40 nationalities in a single square mile, and a laboratory for the future of the United States; cities such as Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, which have some of the most concentrated and fastest growing white populations in the nation, despite the fact that experts have used U.S. Census data to predict that white Americans will no longer constitute a majority in the U.S. by 2043; the rapidly growing purchasing power of Latinos, as LatinWorks, an award-winning ad agency in Austin, Texas is at the forefront of efforts to win the attention of the growing multicultural market; the Bakken Oil Boom is bringing billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs to North Dakota -- but most people don't know that 1/5 of North Dakota's oil production comes from an Indian reservation; and much more. AMERICA BY THE NUMBERS premieres in primetime on Thursday, October 2, 2014 on WORLD Channel and will broadcast on PBS beginning Saturday, October 4, 2014.
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On Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 10pm (check local listings), PBS premiered a new special, "The New Deciders," of AMERICA BY THE NUMBERS. This 2016 election special reveals how Asian-American, black millennial, Arab-American and Latino evangelical voters are exerting their growing strength and influence. Plus, the special highlights the topics of power and politics, demographics and democracy.