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Colorado’s minorities losing ground

by Burt Hubbard and Ann Carnahan Espinola

This article and other material were produced by I-News Network, whose journalists analyzed six decades of reports from the U.S. Census Bureau to track the state’s poverty rates, family income, high school and college graduation rates and home ownership. The analysis uncovered surprising racial and ethnic disparities. Minority gains made during the era of the civil rights movement eroded with time. Colorado evolved from a state that was by most measures more equitable than the national average in the first decades covered by the analysis to one that is less so now. Story text begins below this video.

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By some of the most important measures of social progress, black and Latino residents of Colorado have lost ground compared to white residents in the decades since the civil rights movement.

Angel Castro’s son, Aaron, 3, watches a movie after his evening bath while Castro feeds his sister, Alexis, 17 months, at their Englewood apartment. Castro, 28, a single mother relying heavily on public assistance, quit her part-time job after losing childcare for the two children. Single parenthood is a bigger indicator of poverty than race, according to data analyzed by I-News Network. (Joe Mahoney/The iNews Network)

Minority gains made during the 1960s and 1970s have eroded with time, an I-News Network analysis of six