Data Points: Poverty Rate in US

from US News and World Report

Non-Hispanic whites have the lowest poverty rate

--8.2%: Poverty rate in 2007 for non-Hispanic whites

--24.5%: ...for blacks

--21.5%: ...for Hispanics

--10.2%: ...for Asians

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007 (http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p60-235.pdf)