Erin Maguire

Erin Maguire Census Assignment
Erin Maguire Census Assignment
 

Erin Maguire

Race and Ethics

March 22, 2012

            For my paper I compared the amount of people above and below the poverty among whites only, blacks only, and Asians only from 2006-2010. The data revealed that there are more black people below the poverty level in Taunton , Everett, Massachusetts, and the United States in comparison to white people and Asians. In all of the four places examined, except Taunton, Asians had more people below the poverty level than whites. The margin of error in this data was fairly low other than in the Everett data where the highest margin of error was highest for Asians at +/- 9.3 and +/-6.0 for Blacks. I was surprised to find that there were more Asians below the poverty level in three out of four of the places examined because although I thought this might be true for the United States as a whole I had figured that whites and blacks would be closer in amounts of people below the poverty level . This was far from true whites and Asians are the closest in all four of the areas examined with black people nearly doubling if not a little more than doubling the amount of people below the poverty level in comparison to whites. Asians and whites were closer in amounts of people below the poverty level with black people doubling them in number. Considering Taunton and Everett are only about 40 miles away from each other and are geographically similar it isn’t surprising that they’d have similar patterns in poverty. The amount of people below the poverty level in the United States is nearly the same with Asians having roughly two percent more people below the poverty level, while black people more than doubled the other two races in amount of people below the poverty level. This is a good projection and makes sense since the data is roughly the same for the two cities examined, and Massachusetts which all obviously make up the United States. The data was over a course of 5 years and although there are programs meant to help the amount of people living below the poverty level, the fact that there are double the amount of black people living below poverty than whites and Asians clearly reveals that something more has to be done.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2006-2010 American Community Survey

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2006-2010 American Community Survey

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2006-2010 American Community Survey

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2006-2010 American Community Survey

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