Number and percent of families in poverty by race/ethnicity of householder.															

		Poverty	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
US total		Total	" 52,227 "	" 56,245 "	" 60,309 "	" 63,558 "	" 66,322 "	" 67,175 "	" 68,216 "	" 68,506 "	" 69,313 "	" 69,597 "	" 70,241 "	" 70,884 "	" 71,551 "
		%	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
		In poverty	" 5,260 "	" 5,450 "	" 6,217 "	" 7,223 "	" 7,098 "	" 7,712 "	" 8,144 "	" 8,393 "	" 8,053 "	" 7,532 "	" 7,708 "	" 7,324 "	" 7,186 "
		%	10.1	9.7	10.3	11.4	10.7	11.5	11.9	12.3	11.6	10.8	11.0	10.3	10.0
Race/ethnicity	NH-Whites	Total		" 47,328 "	" 49,584 "	" 50,912 "	" 52,038 "	" 52,288 "	" 52,302 "	" 52,470 "	" 53,029 "	" 52,861 "	" 52,625 "	" 52,875 "	" 53,107 "
		%		100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
		In poverty		" 3,182 "	" 3,470 "	" 3,948 "	" 3,442 "	" 3,719 "	" 3,840 "	" 3,988 "	" 3,833 "	" 3,384 "	" 3,433 "	" 3,357 "	" 3,264 "
		%		6.7	7.0	7.8	6.6	7.1	7.3	7.6	7.2	6.4	6.5	6.3	6.1
	Blacks	Total	" 5,027 "	" 5,586 "	" 6,317 "	" 6,921 "	" 7,471 "	" 7,716 "	" 7,982 "	" 7,993 "	" 8,093 "	" 8,055 "	" 8,455 "	" 8,408 "	" 8,452 "
		%	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
		In poverty	" 1,481 "	" 1,513 "	" 1,826 "	" 1,983 "	" 2,193 "	" 2,343 "	" 2,484 "	" 2,499 "	" 2,212 "	" 2,127 "	" 2,206 "	" 1,985 "	" 1,981 "
		%	29.5	27.1	28.9	28.7	29.4	30.4	31.1	31.3	27.3	26.4	26.1	23.6	23.4
	Hispanics	Total		" 2,499 "	" 3,235 "	" 4,206 "	" 4,981 "	" 5,177 "	" 5,733 "	" 5,946 "	" 6,202 "	" 6,287 "	" 6,631 "	" 6,961 "	" 7,273 "
		%		100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
		In poverty		 627 	 751 	" 1,074 "	" 1,244 "	" 1,372 "	" 1,529 "	" 1,625 "	" 1,724 "	" 1,695 "	" 1,748 "	" 1,721 "	" 1,648 "
		%		25.1	23.2	25.5	25.0	26.5	26.7	27.3	27.8	27.0	26.4	24.7	22.7

"Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ""Poverty Status of Families, by Type of Family, Presence of Related Children, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1959 to 1998,"" "															
"accessed online at http://www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/histpov/hstpov4.html (November 18, 1999)"