As I worked on finding the information for this project I had in mind more or less what I was going to encounter. For this project I was to look up on the income and poverty within the United States, Massachusetts, and West Springfield, Ma. and a city of my choice, in which I choose Quincy. I was to look up the poverty and income in those areas within three different races, in which I choose Hispanic-Latino, White-non Hispanic, and Asian-non Hispanic. There is a reason as to why I choose Asian-non Hispanic, my first choice was Black-non Hispanic, but I did not go with it because I believe majority of the time Blacks and Hispanics get the same treatment. Also, I think that there are times in which Asians are in good conditions and sometimes where they are not, and that made me curious as to what was there situations under these categories in these areas.

My prediction were the following, I predicted that in the United States the White-non Hispanic and the Asian-non Hispanic were going to be higher in income and lower in poverty and for Hispanic-Latino, I predicted the opposite. As for Massachusetts and the city of Quincy my predictions remained the same. However, for West Springfield I predicted the Hispanic-Latino would be higher in income and lower in poverty and White-non Hispanic and Asian-non Hispanic were going to be lesser in income and higher in poverty because I have family in Springfield and I visit there a lot and every time I go all you see is mostly Hispanic, it’s like a mini Puerto Rico.

In the United States, Asian-non Hispanic and Hispanic-Latino, had higher income than White-non Hispanic, in which to me was surprising at first because I would have figured the White-non Hispanic would have the highest income. However, I then realized that the benefits that some people receive for example, unemployment checks are considered income as well. Furthermore, the poverty rate didn’t surprise me. It shows that Hispanics-Latino is in more poverty than the other races and the White-non Hispanic are less poor.

In Massachusetts, the results came out to be what I had predicted, but the numbers were that far apart. Asian-non Hispanic receives the most income, then the White-non Hispanic and then the Hispanic-Latino.
For West Springfield, Ma, my predictions were completely off. I had predicted that Hispanic-Latino would be the one that would receive more income but instead it turned out to be the White-non Hispanic that received more income. Furthermore, I didn’t understand how they receive more income but have the highest number of people in poverty. What I can probably get from that is that maybe they are more White-non Hispanic working without benefits but their salary probably still is not enough.

As for Quincy, MA, what I had predicted was right, White-non Hispanic receives the most income and then the Asian-non Hispanic and then last but not least the Hispanic-Latino. However, once again I didn’t understand how White-non Hispanic received the most income but have the most number in poverty. I think it would have to be because it is a city that is predominantly White-non Hispanic.

In conclusion some of what I had predicted was true and the rest was not, mostly because it depends on the population of the city and the benefits they get that would consider being income and more other factors that plays in this search.

The tables I used from the census were :

S0201 (poverty and income in the united states)
S0201 (poverty and income in massachusetts)
PCT155 (poverty in springfield)
QT-P33 (income in springfield)
PCT155(poverty for quincy)
QT-P33(income for quincy)