Poverty Among Pacific Islanders in the United States: Incidence, Change, and Correlates

Ahlburg, Dennis A (June 2000). "Poverty Among Pacific Islanders in the United States: Incidence, Change, and Correlates". 23 (1/2): 51–74. ISSN 0275-3596.

Abstract: Although poverty in the United States increased over the 1980s, it decreased for Pacific Islanders. But the incidence and severity of Pacific Islander poverty remained greater than that of other Americans. Poverty among Pacific Islanders declined because their attachment to the labor market increased, as did average education and work experience. The article shows that remittances may increase the poverty of some sending households and plunge other households into poverty. Also, the poverty of elderly and single-female-headed Pacific Islander households is so severe that increased welfare and Social Security payments do not lift them out of poverty. Raised are a number of unresolved issues about the meaning of poverty and the economic status of elderly households. Over the 1980s, both the percentage and the number of people in the United States who lived in households with an income below the official poverty level, and who are thus classified as being poor, increased. In 1980, 13.0 percent of the population lived in poverty; in 1990, 13.5 percent of the population did so. The rates were unequal by race and ethnicity. The rate for whites in 1990 was 10.7 percent; African Americans, 31.9 percent; Native Americans, 30.9 percent; Hispanics, 28.1 percent; and the rate for Asian and Pacific Islanders was 12.2 percent (Danziger and Weinberg 1994: 37). Over the 1980s the rates for whites, Native Americans, and Hispanics increased, while the rates for the other groups, including Asians and Pacific Islanders, declined. However, insights into the economic condition of Pacific Islanders that can be gained from statistics based on Asians and Pacific Islanders are

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