| Author(s): | Lopez, M., and Cohn, D. |
| Title: | Hispanic poverty rate highest in new supplemental census measure |
| Source: | http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/148.pdf |
| Date: | 2011 |
| Organization: | Pew Hispanic Center |
| Short Description: | Among the nation’s largest racial and ethnic groups, poverty rates using the alternative measure are higher than official poverty rates for Hispanics, whites and Asians, but are lower for blacks. |
| Annotation: | Among the nation’s largest racial and ethnic groups, poverty rates using the alternative measure are higher than official poverty rates for Hispanics, whites and Asians, but are lower for blacks. For Hispanics, the SPM poverty rate (28.2%) was 1.5 percentage points higher than the official poverty rate of 26.7%. For whites, the SPM poverty rate was 11.1% while the official poverty rate was 10.0%. For Asians, the SPM poverty rate was 16.7% versus the official poverty rate of 12.1%. By contrast, the SPM poverty rate for blacks, 25.4% in 2010, was 2.1 percentage points lower than the official poverty rate of 27.5%. |
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