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Blacks, Latinos Struggle To Raise Homeownership Rates in Iowa

Home ownership is taken for granted as the default standard of living for many Iowans. But black and Latino homeownership rates have dropped since 1960, an analysis of census data shows. The reasons are explored in the conclusion of the series, "Iowa's Opportunity Gap," an IowaWatch collaboration wi

By Stephen Gruber-Miller, Gregg Hennigan/The Gazette and Joe Sutter/Fort Dodge Messenger

/ 13 Oct 2013

Blacks, Latinos Struggle To Raise Homeownership Rates in Iowa

Graduation Rates For Iowa Blacks, Latinos Not Keeping Up During The Past Half-Century

Only 10 percent of Latino Iowans graduated college in 2010 compared to 16 percent of black and 25 percent of white Iowans, all below the national averages. Perhaps more alarming because how important a high school diploma is, a gap in high school graduation rates for white, black and Latino Iowans c

By Stephen Gruber-Miller, Gregg Hennigan/The Gazette, Jermaine Pigee/The Hawk Eye (Burlington) and Joe Sutter/Fort Dodge Messenger

/ 29 Sep 2013

Graduation Rates For Iowa Blacks, Latinos Not Keeping Up During The Past Half-Century

Black and Latino Rising Poverty Rates, Dropping Median Pay Are Strongly Linked

Two of every five black Iowans didn’t always live in poverty. In the 1970 and 1980 censuses, for example, their poverty rate was 28 percent. It jumped to 37

By Stephen Gruber-Miller and Joe Sutter/Fort Dodge Messenger

/ 22 Sep 2013