Four of the major ethnic groups in poverty are: hispanics, blacks, asians, and whites. Although everyone can be poor, certain races have a higher poverty rates than others. White-Americans have the least percentage of impoverished people. According to Bernadette D. Proctor, an employee in The United States Census Bureau , “For non-Hispanic Whites the poverty rate decreased to 9.1 percent in 2015...”(Porton, 2016). The Hispanic-American community has more than twice the amount of people living in poverty than the Non-Hispanic white. Portor claims, “ The poverty rate decreased for Hispanics to 21.4 percent in 2015...”(Porton, 2016). African-Americans make up a large amount of the impecunious people in the U.S. Portor asserts, “The
