From the article:
"Focusing on poverty rates by race and Hispanic origin, we see that the only group to show an increase in its poverty rate in 2004 was non-Hispanic Whites, at 8.6 percent, up from 8.2 percent in 2003. Asians were the only group to show a decline in poverty, down 2 percentage points from 11.8 percent in 2003 to 9.8 percent in 2004."

... which means that the poverty level for Blacks, Latinos, and Indigenous folks stayed the same (still disproportionately high, but...) Interesting.

Don't have time today to do the research myself, but does anyone know of a study following poverty trends among the "races" in conjunction with the state of the economy? In other words, in terms of "race" and the economy, who gets poorer when?

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