Hispanic Poverty – Nebraska

Poverty rate among Hispanics in Nebraska soars, By Henry J. Cordes, January 5, 2015, Omaha World-Herald: “Maria Benitez’s husband brings home $80 a day from his job painting houses. She supplements that by selling Mexican candies in South Omaha from a cart she pushes down the street. But after paying rent and other bills, there’s often not much money left to feed the couple and their three children. That’s why the 50-year-old Benitez recently stood in a light snow outside Our Lady of Guadalupe Church accepting free sack lunches handed out by James Parsons, who runs a street ministry assisting Omaha’s needy…”