Q&A on the News

When will whites be a minority in the United States? —Donald Varn, Conyers

The U.S. Census Bureau projected last year that whites will become a minority in the United States in 2044.

The report – “Projections of the Size and Composition of the U.S. Population: 2014 to 2060” – was released in March 2015 and states that “more than half of all Americans are projected to belong to a minority group” in 2044.

“While the non-Hispanic white alone population is projected to remain the largest single group, no group will have a majority share of the total and the United States will become a ‘plurality’ of racial and ethnic groups,” the report states.

White children will be in the minority by 2020 with non-white children making up 50.2 percent of those under the age of 18.

“The two or more races population is projected to be the fastest growing over the next 46 years, with its population expected to triple in size (an increase of 226 percent),” the report states.

Census Director John H. Thompson said later last year that the bureau was looking into changing the way minorities report their race and ethnicity, the Associated Press reported.

That could “reclassify some minorities who were considered white in the past,” the AP wrote.

The arrest of two UGA football players prompts this question: Does UGA pay for the attorney and bail for players who get in trouble? —Frank Cook, Doraville

UGA and the UGA Athletic Association do not pay for the attorneys or bail for athletes who are arrested, an athletic department spokesman told Q&A on the News in an email.

Atlanta police are seeking a woman who they say struck and killed a pedestrian shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday.

Witnesses told police a man stumbled backward into the roadway at 1575 Moreland Avenue as the Ford Explorer headed south in the right lane.

The driver swerved to avoid striking the pedestrian and hit another vehicle, but still struck and