California has the USA’s highest poverty rate, when factoring in cost-of-living

Re:California has the USA’s highest poverty rate, when facto... by Spooky23 on Sunday March 12, 2017 @11:16PM (#13854987)

From NYC: "African-American and Latino New Yorkers are disproportionately affected by homelessness. Approximately 58 percent of New York City homeless shelter residents are African-American, 31 percent are Latino, 7 percent are white, less than 1 percent are Asian-American, and 3 percent are of unknown race/ethnicity."

You also need to be very careful with context and analysis of "latino". Statistically, Latino is an overlay term representing cultural origin. Many African Americans identify as Latino.

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Re:California has the USA’s highest poverty rate, when facto... by edblarney on Monday March 13, 2017 @06:21AM (#13856556)

Again, NYC is not America.

Again, we're talking about poverty rates, not homeless rates.

Yes, I understand 'Latino' is not always central/south American in the classic sense, but fyi - Latino's are far more likely to be classified as 'White' than 'African American' - i.e. Spanish, Cubans etc.

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