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The Hispanic Gap : The unintended consequence is a dampening of Latino voter turnout." Minorities have been harder-hit by the recession than whites. While the national unemployment rate stands at 8.3 percent, it's much higher for blacks (15.6 percent) and Hispanics (12.5 ...

The District of Columbia Produces the Largest Minority Reading and Math Proficiency Gaps in the ...  - The Hispanic -white gap is narrower than the black-white gap, but ... Board of education; and half of all Blacks and Latinos live in poverty and attend ...

The Lafayette Fire Department is hoping to bridge the gap when it comes to language barriers. The Spanish speaking residents in the parish has ... View article...

In California's Rich Farm Country: How the Poor May Get Poorer : "Twenty-three percent of the population lives in poverty , far above the state and national averages of around 14%. (See "The Achievement Gap: Why Hispanic Students Are Still Behind.") Much of that population could sink even deeper into poverty when $11 ... Español | Português | Las américas

The institute estimated that about 3% of Hispanic or Latino Coloradans 18 and younger were uninsured in 2015, compared with about 8% in 2021. View article...

Minority wealth gap highest in 25 years : The average income of white households in 2009 was $51861, whereas Hispanic households averaged $38039 and black households $32000. The unemployment rate nearly doubled from 5.0 in 2007 to 9.9 in 2009 in the wake of the recession. ... Español | Português | Las américas

Latinos are making more money, but gap among ethnic groups still wide  -  Latinos in the U.S. are making more money, especially the women, but the number of Hispanic families below the poverty line continues to ...

Most California mothers breast-feed newborns, but race gap persists  - Despite the progress, the state still suffers from a racial gap in breast-feeding. Moms who are Asian, Hispanic or African American lag significantly ...

The survey found evidence of an information gap and other barriers that could be preventing Hispanic and Latino people from accessing the vaccine, ... View article...

Eliminating gender wage gap would reduce LGBT poverty  - and black workers and the gap between Hispanic and non- Hispanic workers ), and for gay and bisexual men compared with heterosexual men.

The racial wealth gap we hardly talk about: What happens in retirement  - Hispanic families, according to an analysis done by the Urban Institute, which released a series of charts illustrating wealth inequality in America .

This is a more than 20% COVID-19 vaccination jump within the Hispanic/ Latinx community looking back at this time last year. View article...

Richer minorities seen living in poorer neighborhoods : "But fast-growing cities in Nevada, Florida , Georgia and North Carolina show a much narrower gap. Affluent blacks are more exposed to poverty than the average non-Hispanic white in all but two of the top 50 metro areas with the most black households: ... Español | Português | Las américas

Unluckily for me, as a Hispanic woman, my “Equal Pay Day” doesn't ... I always knew that I fell into the section of people who would have to fight extra ... “The wage gap for women who identify as 'Hispanic or Latino' is larger than that ... View article...

More Latino Kids In Low-Income But More Financially Stable Households  - The income gap between high-income and low-income Hispanic children ... Some 5.7 million Hispanic children live in poverty , more than any other ...

US inequality persists 50 years after key report as racial segregation and poverty deepen: study - About 46 percent of people living in poverty in 2016 were classified as living in deep poverty — 16 percentage points higher than in 1975. And although there has been progress for Hispanic home-ownership since the Kerner Commission issued its report, the home-ownership gap has widened for ...

Black and Hispanic Americans have accumulated more wealth in recent years, their median net worth still lags behind that of White Americans . View article...

Alexandra Mislin, American University ... The wage gap for Hispanic and Black women is even higher — these groups made 70% and 65%, respectively, ... View article...

The unemployment rates for white people (3.2%), Asian American people (3.8%) and Latino or Hispanic people (4.9%) declined in December. View article...