Nationally, (click here) the population identifying as Hispanic/Latino represents 17 percent (54 million people) of the U.S. population.[i] The Latino population in the U.S. grew 43 percent over the decade prior to 2010 and growth increasingly occurred in new communities. Overall population growth in the U.S. was just 10 percent over that time.[ii]Latinos are disproportionately affected by poverty, food insecurity, and unemployment. They are also more likely to receive emergency food assistance than their White, non-Hispanic peers and less likely to receive SNAP benefits.
...The 89 counties in 2013 with a majority Hispanic population compose 3 percent of all U.S. counties. Twenty-seven percent of these majority Hispanic counties fall into the top 10 percent of counties with the highest rates of childhood food insecurity....
I am not real keen on Pew Research, but, this study is taken directly off the 2013 Census data.
Hispanics (click here) are the only major racial or ethnic group to see a statistically significant decline in its poverty rate, according to 2013 Census Bureau figures released this week. The drop in the poverty rate among Hispanics – from 25.6% in 2012 to 23.5% in 2013 – contributed to the first decline in the nation’s overall poverty rate since 2006....
The Hispanic population in the USA need to hang on to the advantage they received under President Obama. These folks are among the working poor. They do rise above poverty because they are probably holding down two jobs or more. They need a minimum wage hike to move into a stabilized income to grow wealth and within reach of purchasing a house.
These are primarily Red State areas.
We know that bankruptcies are frequently occurring in the USA due to medical costs. These states primarily do not have the Medicaid Expansion and people are suffering. They are suffering financially, but, also dying due to lack of health care insurance.
Getting to know these populations with a strong political ground presence will begin to move them to vote. Spanish is a language barrier when it is not addressed to reach potential voters.
September 14, 2016
By Binyamin Applebaum, Patricia Cohen and Jack Healy
...The answer is in plain sight. (click here) While the economy finally is moving in the right direction, the real incomes of most American households still are smaller than in the late 1990s. And large swaths of the country — rural America, industrial centers in the Rust Belt and Appalachia — are lagging behind.
“We ain’t feeling too much of all that economic growth that I heard was going on, patting themselves on the back,” said Ralph Kingan, the mayor of Wright, Wyo. “It ain’t out in the West.
That bleak reality helps to explain why the good news the Census Bureau issued Tuesday about a rise in household income was greeted gleefully by economists but is unlikely to change the complexion of the presidential race....'
The businesses that serve obsolete energy sources should have seen this coming. The climate crisis is real and we know coal burning power plants have produced 35 percent of the greenhouse gases, ie: Duke Energy. Mark Perkins need to take the imitative to be retrained for a new job if he can't continue his coal dependent business.
This is typical of the people Republicans promise to protect when elected. That is a lie. The case in Kentucky is a prime example of the lies. As the Kentucky politicians, including Mitch McConnell, promise to save coal jobs those jobs are shed because of mechanization. They can't save jobs because the CEOs are making this decision and not the politicians.
...“We are waiting on the election with high hopes that we do get a Republican in there who does understand about working men and women,” said Mark Perkins, 49, who shut down his electrical storefront in the coal town of Wright earlier this year as he lost once-plentiful jobs servicing mines and large generators....
...The 89 counties in 2013 with a majority Hispanic population compose 3 percent of all U.S. counties. Twenty-seven percent of these majority Hispanic counties fall into the top 10 percent of counties with the highest rates of childhood food insecurity....
I am not real keen on Pew Research, but, this study is taken directly off the 2013 Census data.
Hispanics (click here) are the only major racial or ethnic group to see a statistically significant decline in its poverty rate, according to 2013 Census Bureau figures released this week. The drop in the poverty rate among Hispanics – from 25.6% in 2012 to 23.5% in 2013 – contributed to the first decline in the nation’s overall poverty rate since 2006....
The Hispanic population in the USA need to hang on to the advantage they received under President Obama. These folks are among the working poor. They do rise above poverty because they are probably holding down two jobs or more. They need a minimum wage hike to move into a stabilized income to grow wealth and within reach of purchasing a house.
These are primarily Red State areas.
We know that bankruptcies are frequently occurring in the USA due to medical costs. These states primarily do not have the Medicaid Expansion and people are suffering. They are suffering financially, but, also dying due to lack of health care insurance.
Getting to know these populations with a strong political ground presence will begin to move them to vote. Spanish is a language barrier when it is not addressed to reach potential voters.
September 14, 2016
By Binyamin Applebaum, Patricia Cohen and Jack Healy
...The answer is in plain sight. (click here) While the economy finally is moving in the right direction, the real incomes of most American households still are smaller than in the late 1990s. And large swaths of the country — rural America, industrial centers in the Rust Belt and Appalachia — are lagging behind.
“We ain’t feeling too much of all that economic growth that I heard was going on, patting themselves on the back,” said Ralph Kingan, the mayor of Wright, Wyo. “It ain’t out in the West.
That bleak reality helps to explain why the good news the Census Bureau issued Tuesday about a rise in household income was greeted gleefully by economists but is unlikely to change the complexion of the presidential race....'
The businesses that serve obsolete energy sources should have seen this coming. The climate crisis is real and we know coal burning power plants have produced 35 percent of the greenhouse gases, ie: Duke Energy. Mark Perkins need to take the imitative to be retrained for a new job if he can't continue his coal dependent business.
This is typical of the people Republicans promise to protect when elected. That is a lie. The case in Kentucky is a prime example of the lies. As the Kentucky politicians, including Mitch McConnell, promise to save coal jobs those jobs are shed because of mechanization. They can't save jobs because the CEOs are making this decision and not the politicians.
...“We are waiting on the election with high hopes that we do get a Republican in there who does understand about working men and women,” said Mark Perkins, 49, who shut down his electrical storefront in the coal town of Wright earlier this year as he lost once-plentiful jobs servicing mines and large generators....
