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Behind the poverty numbers.(CHECK THE COLOR LINE)(Brief article)
With the media chatter last year on how poverty levels dropped between 2005 and 2006, many Americans just got a partial picture of what families of color struggle with every day. Little did anyone notice, for example, that poverty actually increased for American Indian families.
THE NUMBERS
1 in 5
Number of Black families living below the federal poverty level
26.1%
Poverty rate in Massachusetts for Latinos, the highest in the country
1 in 2
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