The Nation - News from Sept. 19, 1986
Two of every five Latino children lived in poverty in 1985, Robert Greenstein, director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonprofit group, told a joint hearing of two House panels. Noting that the Census Bureau reported the 1985 poverty rate of Latinos had risen to 29%, a 0.6% increase from 1984, Greenstein said the number of Latinos under 18 living below the poverty level increased by 207,000 last year, to 2.6 million.
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