Policy choices — past and present — make NC children under 5 and people of color more likely to live in poverty 

North Carolina poverty rates by age and by race/ethnicity, 2023

Bar chart that shows North Carolina poverty rates in 2023. The first 5 bars show poverty rates by age, with poverty highest among children. The next six bars show poverty rates by race/ethnicity, with poverty rates lowest among white North Carolinians and at least twice as high among North Carolinians of color.
Note: The Census Bureau collects data by race and Hispanic or Latine ethnicity separately. (We use the term Latine in place of Latino.) Due to the way poverty by race is reported, in this chart "White" only includes people who do not identify as Hispanic or Latine, while all other race categories include people of any ethnicity. "Hispanic or Latine" includes people of any race. This means there may be some overlap between categories.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 2023, Table S1701Get the dataCreated with Datawrapper