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The primary beneficiaries are families headed by married couples. More than half of them have incomes of $50,000 or more. But it gets better: Almost 30 percent of Black married couples have incomes of at least $75,000. So, it shouldn't be surprising that most Blacks in the labor force have surpassed menial labor and gained entrance to higher status and higher paying jobs. Those with sharply rising incomes tend to be business executives and professionals and come from homes where both spouses work and education levels are high.
Those most likely to be poor eke out a living in single-parent, female-headed households. More than a third of Black families headed by unmarried Black women are in poverty, compared to eight percent of Black married couples with families. Close to 60 percent of single Black women have incomes of less than $25,000 and are sentenced by the choices they make to a potential lifetime of disadvantaged circumstances. But it is the fractured family structure that bodes the most ill for the movement of more Blacks into the economic mainstream.See the full content of this document
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Slowly, the Times Are Changing
Black Americans can point to pride at the remarkable growth in the number of families that can be called middle class. Unfortunately, the earnings gap between high and low...
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