Tag: Black marriage

The Census Bureau Gives Up on Black Marriage

Dec 18, 2008

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mwkruse

in Demography, Race, Trends: Social

Gruntled Center (Beau Weston): The Census Bureau Gives Up on Black Marriage The exciting headline in the New York Times is "Two-Parent Black Families Showing Gains." The percent of black kids living with two parents leaped up from an abysmal 35% in 2004 to a somewhat less abysmal 39.5% in 2007. … …But this big…
“Black Downward Mobility” is Really a Marriage Decline

Nov 13, 2007

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by

mwkruse

in Demography, Poverty, Race, Sociology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Gruntled Center (Beau Weston): "Black Downward Mobility" is Really a Marriage Decline The Associated Press has a story across the country today by Stephen Ohlemacher with headlines like "Income Gap Between Families Grows." They are reporting on a series of studies by Julia Isaacs of the Brookings Institution on economic mobility. The news hook is…