This briefing book offers guidance to Congress, the Administration, and state legislatures about which issues are important to the nation's largest ethnic groups, focusing on: "Civil Rights" (hate crimes, racial profiling, sentencing reform, and voting rights); "Economic Mobility" (e.g., banking and financial services, pensions, savings, Social Security reform, tax cuts, and welfare reauthorization); "Education" (e.g., early childhood education, the education budget, adult English as a Second Language Services, and college access for immigrant students); "Health Care" (e.g., restoration of immigrant benefits, access to health insurance and Medicaid reform, language access, and community health centers); "Housing" (fair housing and housing counseling); "Immigration" (e.g., comprehensive immigration reform, post-September 11 immigration policies, state and local police enforcement of immigration law, and farmworkers); "NCLR's State and Local Policy Activities" (California and Texas, health, driver's licenses, language access, naturalization, and education); and "Population Tables" (states ranked by Hispanic population, 1990 and 2000, and states ranked by growth of Hispanic population, 1990 to 2000). Includes a list of resources on the various issues covered in the guide. (SM)