Gary Hoover, Walter Enders, Donald Freeman
Using Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR) we explore the impact of three different measures of economic activity – GDP growth, unemployment, and manufacturing employment to – on poverty among whites, blacks and Hispanics in the United States. This analysis is unique in that we further disaggregate the data by looking at the impact of growth across racial/ethnic groups by four Census regions. We find that the impacts of the various measures of economic activity vary greatly by group and region, with blacks, whites and Hispanics have vastly different responses to economic stimuli in the Northeast.