But your people are the poorest everywhere they go.
In Dominican Republic:
More than a third of the
Dominican Republic lives on less than $1.25 a day and over 20 percent of the country lives in extreme
poverty. Most of the
povertyin the
Dominican Republic is concentrated in the rural areas. The rural
poverty rate is about three times as high as the urban
povertyrate.
In America :
Dominicans and Puerto Ricans living in the United States remain among the groups with the highest levels of poverty in the country,
according to numbers released by the Census Bureau.
The data released by the institution showed the level of poverty among Hispanics in general constitutes 11.2 million (23.2 percent.) of a population of about 48.2 million in U.S. territory
Of those Hispanics facing the worst economic status, 26.3 percent are Dominicans and 25.6 percent are Puerto Ricans.