As of 2010, the US Census Bureaus survey results estimated that American poverty had increased during the previous year from 13.2% of the population to 14.3%, resulting in the largest number of poor Americans (43.6 million) since poverty estimates have been published. The trends of data summarized here provide a demographic snapshot of American poverty today: >The poverty rate increased from Whites from 8.6% to 9.4%; for Blacks, from 24.7% to 25.8%; and for Latinos, from 23.2% to 25.3%. For Asians, the poverty rate of 12.5% did not change significantly from the previous year (US Census Bureau, 2010c ). >Women are 40% more likely to live in poverty than men and 60% more likely to live in extreme poverty (or to have resources that amount to less than half the poverty rate) (Legal Momentum, 2003). Within White, Black, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Native American, Asian, and Pacific Islander ethnicities, women of every group are more likely to be poor than the men of the same background (Elmelech & Lu, 2004). >Twenty-four percent of lesbians live in poverty, as opposed 19% of straight women; the poverty rates of gay men are approximately equal to those of straight men (Albelda, Badgett, Schnecbaum, & Gates, 2009). >Twenty-one percent of Americans children live in poverty (15.3 million children), and 9% live in extreme poverty (Wight, Chau, & Aratani, 2011). >Twelve percent of White Children live in poor families, along with 36% of Black children, 15% of Asian children, 34% of Native American children, and 33% of Latino/a children (Wight, Chau, & Aratani, 2011).
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 21:08:21 +0000
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