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> white people make up 76% Untrue - the talkpoverty.org page being referred to distinguishes white and Hispanic, but non-Hispanic whites make up only 57.8% of
by car_analogy 5y ago
> white people make up 76%
Untrue - the talkpoverty.org page being referred to distinguishes white and Hispanic, but non-Hispanic whites make up only 57.8% of the US. It was 75.6% in 1990, but their share has been dropping fast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_demographics_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_d...
Furthermore, while that page provides poverty rates for all sorts of groups, it somehow missed men (10.6% vs 12.9% for women) and Asians (10.1%, same as the white rate), according to https://www.povertyusa.org/facts https://www.povertyusa.org/facts (I assume the small difference is due to povertyusa.org using older data, from 2018)
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoThe original number didn't distinguish between Hispanic or non-Hispanic whites, I assume you aren't counting Hispanic as a race? Assuming the 15.9 million includes poor white hispanics, that makes the disparity even more astonishing.
- car_analogy 5y ago> The original number didn't distinguish between Hispanic or non-Hispanic whites Are you referring to the figures on https://talkpoverty.org/basics/ https://talkpoverty.org/basics/? Under the white poverty rate, it clearly says: "Percentage of non-Hispanic whites who fell below the poverty line in 2020"