LGB African Americans experience poverty at least twice as much as their heterosexual counterparts (Badgett et al. 2013). Finally, same-sex couples in rural areas have a poverty rate that is twice that of those in metropolitan areas (Albelda et al. 2009). Beyond labor market outcomes, other...
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Poverty rate of Black married-couple families in the United States from 1990 to 2023 ×Zoomable Statistic: Select the range in the chart you want to zoom in on. Poverty rate of families12.6%12.6%11%11%13%13%12.3%12.3%8.7%8.7%8.5%8.5%9.1%9.1%8%8%7.3%7.3%7.1%7.1%6.3%6.3%7.8%...
We can also observe that the poverty rate for the fourth trimester of 2023 (average of October, November and December) was 45.2%, a higher rate than their latest projection. However, even this number is a bit misleading if used as the pre-Milei data point, since the poverty rate of the...
In addition, the greater exposure to crime, noise, and congestion implies a lower quality of life, on average, for black Americans. Because black neighborhood disadvantage results in inequality of life chances based on race, it is important to determine the direction, pace, and sources of ...
Our results show that in SMSAs where residential contact between African Americans and Whites increases, the rate of race riots increases significantly. A prior history of racial turmoil increases the likelihood of another race riot; the results suggest that the rate of race riots in a ...
Other racial groups also grapple with poverty as well. There are 19.5 million white Americans below the poverty line. Although the rate is lower, about one-in-ten, the absolute number of people below the poverty threshold is the largest of all groups....
Poverty is widely believed to cause violence. The general public treats this notion as a truism, and most academics also accept it as such. Debates among the latter tend to be over which social mechanisms cause poverty to affect violence. But there are o
Poverty rate – determined by the share of the population whose family or individual income falls below poverty thresholds – is one of four metrics that factor into a ranking of the best states for economic opportunity, which informs the best states for opportunity rankings and the overall ...
prohibition. Today nearly one-third of women in state prisons are incarcerated for drug offenses, and approximately two-thirds of them are black or Hispanic, even though data collected by the Department of Health and Human Services have shown that white women use drugs at roughly the same rate...