Black homeowners and Latino neighborhoods in particular saw big gains, an updated study by the University of Michigan Poverty ...

Hialeah, Florida, a city near Miami where 95% of residents are Latino, had a poverty rate of 17.8% Brownsville, a South Texas city where 95% of residents are Latino, had a poverty rate of 26.1% ...

In the case of no job loss with an increase in the minimum wage, 2.8 million Hispanic people could be lifted out of poverty according to the paper. "On average, workers from all racial and ethnic ...

In Los Angeles County, Hispanics and Asians both report higher poverty rates than do Anglos (the rate for Latinos was more than double that for non-Hispanic whites), and yet their life ...

Asian, Black and Latino New Yorkers were about twice as likely to live in poverty compared to white New Yorkers, according to the report. The poverty rate was slightly higher for children ...

The U.S. started collecting separate poverty data on Hispanics in 1972. That year, 22.8 percent of those originally from Spanish-language countries of Latin America were poor. The percentage hasn ...

Hispanics’ health-inclusive poverty rate also exceeded their supplemental poverty rate (by 4.5 percentage points), partly as a result of their high uninsurance rate. Although poverty rates and ...