Poverty among minorities in the United States: explaining the racial poverty gap for Blacks and Latinos
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Poverty among minorities in the United States: Explaining the racial poverty gap for Blacks and Latinos
The two largest minorities in the United States, African Americans and people of Hispanic origin, show official poverty rates that are at least twice as high as those among non-Hispanic Whites. These similarly high poverty rates among minorities are, however, the result of different combinations of factors, due to the specific characteristics of these two groups. In this paper, we analyze the r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Economics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0003-6846,1466-4283
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2011.581219