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Title: Limited English Skills, Relative Youth Contribute to Hispanic Poverty Rates

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: Hispanic poverty rates are high compared with other major demographic groups and have improved little in the past four decades. In 2010, 26.4 percent of Texas Hispanics fell below the poverty line versus 9.2 percent of non-Hispanic whites (Chart 1A); nationally, 24.6 percent of Hispanics and 10.5 percent of non-Hispanic whites were poor (Chart 1B).1 Hispanic performance has also been disappointing when compared with other minorities nationally. Hispanic poverty rates have fallen 12 percentage points in Texas but less than 1 percentage point in the U.S. over the past 40 years. Black poverty declined 12 percentage points in Texas and 9 percentage points in the U.S. during the same period. Although Hispanics have logged much greater improvement in Texas than in the U.S. since 1970, their poverty . . .

Url: https://www.dallasfed.org/~/media/documents/research/swe/2012/swe1201c.pdf

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Authors: Bi, Yingda; Orrenius, Pia; Zavodny, Madeline

Periodical (Full): Southwest Economy

Issue: Q1

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Pages: 10-13

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Poverty and Welfare

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