Quote (joncomgree @ Jan 18 2019 01:42pm)
Persons of lower socioeconomic status. Poor white and poor black people are the same thing: poor.
better would depend.
you'd need to calculate what % of each subgroup is "poor" and then find out the difference in creating opportunities in total by targeting each experimental group.
for some programs it would for sure be more effective to target "the poor" to helps the most poor people, and for some it's better to target blacks, who are largely poor, to help the most poor people, who also all happen to be black.
the only reason to disagree would be if you think it's unfair to help only poor blacks really, which means you care more about skin color than poverty, if more poor are helped overall.
but when you look at the % success rate of programs targeted generally at the poor, they're terrible. compared to specific targeted projects, such as a single state targeting black female students with STEM major scholarships. the % success rate is an order of magnitude higher.