Fact-check · Sep 22, 2026 · Donald Trump
“The African American and Hispanic American poverty rates are at all time lows.”
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What the record shows
Census Bureau 2024 data: Black poverty 18.4% (up from 17.1% in 2022, the prior record low); Hispanic poverty 15.0% (near historic low). Black poverty is not at all-time low.
Sources
- Who’s poor in America? 50 years into the ‘War on Poverty,’ a data portrait | Pew Research Center
- TABLE 1. PERSONS IN POVERTY, BY RACE AND HISPANIC ORIGIN
- Post%E2%80%93civil rights era in African-American history
- Historical Poverty Tables: People and Families - 1959 to 2025
- Charted: How America’s Poverty Rates Differ by Race
- african american hispanic poverty all time low
From: President Trump Delivers Remarks to the United Nations General Assembly
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