What is the Latino impact on the US economy? NBC 7 San Diego [Video]

Over the next four days in San Diego, the L’ATTITUDE conference will bring together business, association and political leaders to discuss and better understand the role Latinos play in our economy.

A report released Thursday shows that the Latino community in the U.S. is growing — not just in population, but in the way they strive to succeed and achieve more for their families than they did 10 years ago.

San Diego attorney Andrew Schouten was having lunch downtown when NBC 7 Responds told him about the report and what it had to say about Latinos. Why did it matter to him? Don’t let his name confuse you. He is Latino – half Dutch and half Mexican.

“If I was in a Mexican high school, it would say in my picture, Andres Eduardo Escouten Del Bosque,” he said.

Schouten said that he owes much of his success to his family who were farmworkers. One summer, they took …