African Americans and Latinos in Georgia are more than twice as likely to live below the poverty line as whites

In the regional south of the United States, cultural factors including poverty, unemployment, and racial inequities put young people of color at particular risk for negative sexual health outcomes, including teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and HIV.[6,7,8] African Americans and Latinos in Georgia are more than twice as likely to live below the poverty line as whites.[9] http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/PUBLICATIONS/factsheet/fsgeorgia.htm