{"id":11974,"date":"2012-01-13T20:01:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T20:01:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-13T20:01:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T20:01:42","slug":"Minorities-spending-forecast-3-5-trillion-in-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=11974","title":{"rendered":"Minorities&#8217; spending forecast $3.5 trillion in &#8217;15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>$3.5 trillion &#8211; That&#8217;s how much Latino, black and Asian American shoppers will spend on goods and services in 2015, according to the University of Georgia&#8217;s Selig Center for Economic Growth.<\/strong> Retailers like Macy&#8217;s are gearing up to sell more clothes, cosmetics and home goods to minority shoppers, and they&#8217;re seeking out suppliers who specialize in those markets. Macy&#8217;s predicts its sales of products from minority- and women-owned businesses will top $1 billion within two years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704604704576220603247344790.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsForth#project%3DCENSUS_SHIFT_2011%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive\">Check out the cool map from the Wall Street Journal Online.<\/a> Roll over the map to see population and growth rates by race for every state.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"wsj_fp\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/media\/swf\/main.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videocategory_id={E2B65426-11DD-493D-9DAC-1FC973F565E4}&#038;playerid=1000&#038;plyMediaEnabled=1&#038;configURL=http:\/\/wsj.vo.llnwd.net\/o28\/players\/&#038;autoStart=false\" base=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/media\/swf\/\"name=\"flashPlayer\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/media\/swf\/main.swf\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"flashVars=\"videocategory_id={E2B65426-11DD-493D-9DAC-1FC973F565E4}&#038;playerid=1000&#038;plyMediaEnabled=1&#038;configURL=http:\/\/wsj.vo.llnwd.net\/o28\/players\/&#038;autoStart=false\" base=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/media\/swf\/\" name=\"flashPlayer\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$3.5 trillion &#8211; That&#8217;s how much Latino, black and Asian American shoppers will spend on goods and services in 2015,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"colormag-highlighted-post":false,"colormag-featured-post-medium":false,"colormag-featured-post-small":false,"colormag-featured-image":false,"colormag-default-news":false,"colormag-featured-image-large":false,"colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":false},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"$3.5 trillion &#8211; That&#8217;s how much Latino, black and Asian American shoppers will spend on goods and services in 2015,","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":151,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":1,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":false,"medium":false,"thumbnail":false},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}