Behind the poverty numbers.With the media chatter Chatter See: Whipsawed last year on how poverty levels dropped between 2005 and 2006, many Americans just got a partial picture of what families of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color struggle with every day. Little did anyone notice, for example, that poverty actually increased for American Indian American Indian or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. families. THE NUMBERS 1 in 5 Number of Black families living below the federal poverty level 26.1% Poverty rate in Massachusetts Massachusetts (măsəch  `sĭts), most populous of the New England states of the NE United States. for Latinos, the highest in the
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1 in 2 Number of Nicaraguan single moms with kids under the age of 5 living in poverty 5.9% Increase in the number of American Indians American Indians: see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the; Natives, Middle American; Natives, North American; Natives, South American. living in poverty between 2005 and 2006 1 in 3 Number of Dominican kids who are in poverty 29.5% Poverty rate for Black families in Louisiana Louisiana (ləwē'zēăn`ə, l ē'–), state in the S central United States. It is bounded by Mississippi, with the Mississippi R.
54% Number of Cherokee single moms with kids living in poverty 1 in 4 Number of Hmong families living in poverty NO EQUAL PAY YET Families of color earn a fraction of what white families take home. $1 White families $0.61 Latino families $0.60 American-Indian families $0.59 Black families Note: Table made from bar graph. THE GOOD NEWS Where are American Indian families are most likely to have the highest income? Virginia What state has the largest Black community and the smallest poverty-rate gap between whites and Blacks? Tennesee THE CELEBS Some day, we'll overthrow the capitalist system and take from the rich to give to the poor. When that day comes, we won't spare our wealthier kin. Here's what a few celebrities of color are worth nowadays: Oprah: $1.4 billion [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Russell Simmons Russell Simmons (born October 4 ,1957 in Queens, New York), is an American entrepreneur, the co-founder, with Rick Rubin, of the pioneering hip-hop label Def Jam, founder of another label, Russell Simmons Music Group, and creator of the clothing fashion line Phat Farm. : $340 million [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] J-Lo: $110 million [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Obama: $1.1 million [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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