Non-marital births are more than twice as common among black mothers as white mothers, and black children are almost three times as likely as white children to be living with a single parent. While marriage rates are falling among all racial groups, the decline has been most dramatic among blacks. Racial differences in family structure have persisted as well.
And in terms of their median net worth, white households are about 13 times as wealthy as black households – a gap that has grown wider since the Great Recession. Households headed by a black person earn on average little more than half of what the average white households earns. 5 At the same time, it’s important to note that on some measures, gaps across racial and ethnic groups have diminished.Īnalyses of federal government data by the Pew Research Center find that blacks on average are at least twice as likely as whites to be poor or to be unemployed. In many ways, America remains two societies – one black and one white – as measured by key demographic indicators of social and economic well-being.
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