Poverty rates by race.

[Uncle Joe]

How does poverty differ across subgroups?

The poverty rate for all persons masks considerable variation between racial/ethnic subgroups. Poverty rates for blacks and Hispanics greatly exceed the national average. In 2010, 27.4 percent of blacks and 26.6 percent of Hispanics were poor, compared to 9.9 percent of non-Hispanic whites and 12.1 percent of Asians.

Poverty rates are highest for families headed by single women, particularly if they are black or Hispanic. In 2010, 31.6 percent of households headed by single women were poor, while 15.8 percent of households headed by single men and 6.2 percent of married-couple households lived in poverty.

There are also differences between native-born and foreign-born residents. In 2010, 19.9 percent of foreign-born residents lived in poverty, compared to 14.4 percent of residents born in the United States. Foreign-born, non-citizens had an even higher incidence of poverty, at a rate of 26.7 percent.

http://www.npc.umich.edu/poverty/

There are more white people living in poverty by sheer numbers but that's because well over 60-70% of the U.S. population is white, depending on self-identification, African Americans and Latinos are disproportionately affected by poverty just as they are by criminal prosecution and incarceration.

The United States Census Bureau defines White people as those "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. It includes people who reported "White" or wrote in entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Near Easterner, Arab, or Polish."[14] Whites constitute the majority of the U.S. population, with a total of about 245,532,000 or 77.7% of the population as of 2013. There are 62.6% Whites when Hispanics who describe themselves as "white" are taken out of the calculation. Despite major changes due to illegal and legal immigration since the 1960s and the higher birth-rates of nonwhites, the overall current majority of American citizens are still white, and English-speaking, though regional differences exist.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States

I have no doubt when Bernie was asked during the debate about racial blind spots and he mentioned "ghettos," this is what he was thinking of.

[Cheese Sandwich]

1. They asked him about this in the Fox town hall

He had a great answer

[pat_k]

2. And some numbers from 2013

Numbers differ depending on parameters used in a given study, but here are some from 2013 (Source: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_cce.pdf p.3)

% of children living in poverty

White: 13%
Asian: 13%
Two or more races: 21%
Pacific Islander: 27%
Hispanic: 32%
Native American: 36%
African American: 39%

[Uncle Joe]

3. Thanks for the addition, pat_k

[840high]

4. Very sad.

[pat_k]

5. Yes. Intolerable.

The number of intolerables we tolerate as a nation is truly the tragedy.