Sentences with phrase «rates than their white counterparts»

But despite a steady increase in their share of entrepreneurial activity, founders from Latino communities along with those from other minority groups — which made up 40 percent of the U.S. population in 2015 — still receive less funding and fail at faster rates than their white counterparts.

But those educators tend to leave the profession at much higher rates than their white counterparts.

Several scholars have pointed out a multitude of reasons as to why African Americans tend to have lower credit ratings than their white counterparts.

Puerto Rican children 1 to 4 years of age were found to have a higher crude mortality rate than their white counterparts (Table 3).

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Previous Pew Research Center studies found that Hispanic Christians attend church more regularly than their white counterparts, and black Protestants are retaining young churchgoers at higher rates than any other group.

James said that while there is a 99 percent survival rate if breast cancer is detected early, black women are 42 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than their white counterparts and Hispanic women have significantly higher rates of being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer than either white or black women.

While Black and Latino preschoolers took the admissions test at substantially lower rates than their White and Asian counterparts, the gap was significantly less for those enrolled in public pre-K programs.

Unmarried white and black mothers rated their health lower, on average, than their married counterparts.

Today, the graduation rate for African - Americans is 75 percent, still lower than our white counterparts, but an increase that shows our community rapidly closing that achievement gap.

Given that the one out of every eight white suburban fourth - graders not on free - or - reduced lunch are struggling with reading is equal to the levels in big - city districts — and the rate of black fourth - grade suburban counterparts who are functionally illiterate is only four percentage points lower than that of big - city peers — suburban districts are actually falling down on their jobs.

The Obama Administration's decision to allow states to implement supposedly «ambitious» yet «achievable» proficiency targets — usually with lower proficiency rates for poor and minority kids than for middle - class and white counterparts — allow districts and schools to do little to help those kids succeed.

He did not mention that black and Hispanic students still graduate from high school at far lower rates than their white and Asian counterparts — 64.6 percent and 63.5 percent, compared with 80 percent and 83.3 percent.

Discipline Disparities Students of color in North Carolina schools have significantly higher rates of both short - and long - term suspensions than their white counterparts.14 Report to the North Carolina General Assembly: Consolidated Data Report 2014 - 15 (Rep.).

Overall, Black, Latino, and low - income students have significantly lower college graduation rates than their White and more affluent counterparts.

Young black men between the age of 15 and 24 are killed by a gun at a rate that is 4.5 times higher than their white counterparts.

Latina adolescents 15 to 19 years of age have a crude birth rate 3 times higher than their white counterparts and the highest of any racial / ethnic group.

Breastfeeding rates amongst Black and Latinx families are lower than their white counterparts.

By Aaron Glantz and Emmanuel Martinez Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting Fifty years after the federal Fair Housing Act banned racial discrimination in lending, African Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts.

Fifty years after the federal Fair Housing Act banned racial discrimination in lending, African Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts.