Causes Of Poverty Affecting Blacks And Latino

Poverty is everywhere in America, and there will always be poverty. Nobody has found a solution to it. If you live in a city you will probably see it every day. A lot of times people do not have a

This can be one of the reasons for poverty in this community. Many families who only have one income may not have enough money to live above the poverty line. We concluded that this might also affect residents who do not earn enough income to pay rent on their own leaving them to have to share their rent expenses with another family. In analyzing the different socio- demographics we found patterns within this community that relates back to issues they are facing today such as living in a food desert. As stated previously, food deserts are found in low income urban communities like South El Monte. With a high number of Latino residents living in poverty, issues of legal status further exacerbate this struggle to find healthy, affordable, and

Poverty among the Latino community has converted into an endemic predicament in the development of children living in the United States. The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) indicated that poverty is uppermost with children making up 21.6% living below the poverty line in comparison to young adults (19.0%) and elders (18.1%). The California Poverty Measure (CPM) by PPIC analysis concluded that 7.5 millions of Californians lacked resources and made an income of about $30,000 a year. That is just above the poverty line which is to earn $24,000 a year. Although Latinos are constantly operational in the work field, they have a higher scarcity rate than any other ethnic group due to their association with lower education and deficiency of income (PPIC, 2017). In addition, according to The Pew Research Center, many Latino families are experiencing economic hardship as a result of moribund financial wealth, increased mortality rates, and higher birth rates among the Latino immigrant population (Lopez, Velasco, 2011). Poverty has produced several obstacles to Latino children in regards to their shifting family dynamics, learning, and development, but there are wide-ranging solutions that aid children of limited income households to prosper. This essay will scrutinize and discuss the assorted effects of poverty for Latino children living in the United States in the context of family dynamics, education, and development, as well as propose a solution to

Poverty affects millions of people living in the united states, poverty is measured by the amount of money needed to support the basic needs of a house hold. Poverty is measured by the SSA low-cost food budget assuming 1/3 of the budget is spent on food. The people with the highest percentage of poverty is shown to be Hispanic female households with no spouse present. The vast majority of people in poverty are women and children but in recent years the numbers of women considered poor have raised. Percentage rate is the percentage of poor in different counties. Looking at graph that maps Americas diversity shows that the highest poverty rate is in the South the Midwest has the least. I would assume that has to do with the weather, warmer weather

More than 3 billion people are living in poverty across the world, among those an estimated 43.1 million people in America are living in poverty. There are many causes of poverty, but mass incarceration is one of the most prominent ones. When people get out of prison or jail, they have a very low chance of getting a job and finding a home because they have the label of being a criminal. People tend to explain poverty especially poverty in America is that people are lazy and do not want to work, but that is not the reason at all. The government is ultimately responsible for distinguishing who is in poverty and what measures are going to be done to help those people get assistance. But because people do not particularly talk about this

There are so many questions to be asked about poverty in America. Poverty is everywhere in the land of the free, but does poverty affect the people in minorities more so than people who are not a minority? Well, most people say that minorities are in fact the most affected by poverty. So the big question is, why does poverty affect minorities the most? Poverty affects minorities the most because those of a minority do not have as many educational, financial, or societal opportunities as others that are not a minority. There are actually many different groups of minorities that poverty could affect believe it or not.

Over the past years poverty has become more common in America, affecting millions of Americans. There are two types of poverty: absolute poverty and relative poverty. According to  Merriam-Webster (2017), Absolute poverty is not having any basic human needs to survive, in the other hand, relative poverty is not having enough money or resources like others in society do. Poverty is caused by lack of money, jobs, and education.

Race is commonly associated with poverty. It was found that "black and Hispanic family income has been approximately 60 percent of white median family income. Interestingly it was also discovered that their net worth was approximately one-tenth that of whites"(Squires and Kubrin , 51 ). Race can play a pivotal role in getting home loans and locations of neighborhoods in which you buy a home. Segregation still plays a major role in poverty.

The poverty status in the last 12 months for all families, White alone is 8.3%, Black alone is 30.4%, American Indian and Alaska Native alone is 37.8%, Asian alone is 16.5%, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone is 30.8%, some other race alone is 35.9%, and two or more races alone is 32.0% (U.S. Census Bureau, 2017). (ADD NEW STUFF FROM CQ ALMANAC FOR VOTING AND CONSTIUENTS)

When looking at the person in the environment, I find that both the Renee family and the Latino family faces poverty challenges. African Americans are

As a result of the pervasive power of racism, African Americans and Latino’s consume a high fat and nutritionally low diet, which contributes to their declining health by increasing their a susceptibility to disease. According the American Heart Association (2013), African Americans have a greater chance of contracting heart disease and a 15% higher mortality rate as opposed to their white counterparts, illustrating not only the high prevalence of disease in minorities, but the alarming health disparities plaguing the United States health system. Although, more amicable/civil to blame proximate risk facts of the individual such as their individual diet and exercise habits, it blindly ignores the systemic oppression of residential segregation. Health disparities stem from various factors including a poor nutritional diet; however, all come back to one inescapable conclusion that the oppression of African Americans and Latinos due to residential segregation and institutionalized racism is directly responsible for the influx in chronic disease. The aggregation of minorities into low income communities leading to limited access to fruits and vegetables, paired with the financial burden of healthy eating trap these minorities in a pervasive, toxic cycle, which begs the question: how does residential segregation and institutional racism shape African Americans and Latino’s diet? and What are the consequences of a high fat, nutritionally low diet?

All groups do not have the same rate of poverty. In terms of age, race, and geography, minorities are the most likely to be affected by poverty. Of those minorities, poverty is most affecting to Native Americans. Geographically, it seems that the southern states are the most poverty stricken, but there are some northern states that have high rates of poverty like Michigan. When it comes to age, children under the age of 18 are more likely to be affected by poverty compared to those who are 65 years and older. At about 1975 the poverty rates by age completely flipped. Before 1975, the elderly had a much higher poverty rate than those under the age of 18, but at 1975 the poverty levels for children began to increase dramatically, and those of

In his discussion on poverty among African Americans, William Wilson has identified several historical factors that have contributed to the increase in poverty levels in the recent years. Such factors included, first, shift in the American economy from industrial to informational economy, thus limited the labor poll to only highly specialized individuals; second, the historical flow of migrants, and what it bring with it from competition over limited amount of resources; third, change in the urban minority age structure, where individuals who are underage are the majority in both Hispanic and African American poor communities, Fourth, population change in the inner city; and finally, the class transformation of inner city, where middle class African Americans, have left the inner city and moved towards other middle class neighborhoods, thus, leaving behind a concentration of poor and underclass African Americans in inner cities all across the United States.

It is clear to people across the nation that poverty within the white community is also very bad. Economists and poverty experts estimate that for everyone in the United States, half of them live in poverty. There is a myth in our country surrounding the phrase, social mobility. Social mobility is in a sense the “American dream”, and has long been forgotten due to decades of disinvestment in small communities. This has left these many pockets across the United States with poor local economies, few to no jobs, a diminishing tax base, and absolutely nothing to bring new residents or business to their respective

Poverty is often determine by race and ethnicity, in Cohen words “ America Indians, Latinos, and African Americans are all about three times more likely to be more poor than Whites” (Cohen 2015: 129) The article “ How Black Middle-Class become poor Adults” by Gillian B White backs this statement up. The article talks about how black parents that live in the middle class are more likely to see their kids go down the ladder and become poor. This theory exist because black children don’t have the same education that a white can have growing up, when a black kid grows up the chances of them becoming single parents are 4 out of 10 and because they still face segregation in some work places that don’t let them progress, the poverty among whites is