U.S Racial Income Divide Widens

Racial income divide widens in US - report
06 July 2006

NEW YORK: African-Americans' share of US national income has narrowed in recent years as a weak job market helped pull back earlier strides, according to a report published on Wednesday.

A black family's median income was 62 per cent of the earnings of their white counterparts, down from 63.5 per cent in 2000, the Economic Policy Institute said.

"The racial gap widened by 2004 as a result of the recession and the jobless recovery that followed," said Jared Bernstein, economist at the Washington think-tank.

Unemployment helped erase the progress that had been made since 1995, when the level was closer to 61 per cent. Had the jobless rate remained at 4 per cent, as it was in 2000, the share of black incomes would have risen to 63.9 per cent of whites'.

"That 1.9 percentage point difference translates to an income loss for the typical black family of over $US1,000 in 2004 alone," the report said.
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What does that have to do with today?

 

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James, things for blacks are getting worse.

 

Against the celebratory backdrop of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown versus Board of Education, a new labor market study finds that many of the nation’s African-American men face growing joblessness and year-round idleness problems.

http://www.nupr.neu.edu/7-04/unemployment.shtml

 

Nothing

 

It is very clear today what limitations blacks have in a civilized socity.

Feeling sorry for blacks is not helping.

 

racism is the answer, james.

read his other posts!! one racist ad hom after another.

 

Just more facts that shows that a high percent of blacks do not want to work.

 

In a country where education is so expensive poverty is self-regenerating, perhaps....but here in this country we see the same thing. Anyone can apply to have their fees paid and here if you are poor or from a broken home you will get grants and bigger loans than someone whose parents can afford it....and yet the same thing happens....therefore, that excuse is invalid. It doesn't matter whether your parents are poor, just whether you wish to learn or not.

In black culture it simply isn't cool to learn, in fact it's cool to be ignorant....to be a "playa" or a "pimp" and wear lots of big colourful clothes and have lots of "hoes" (for reference see africa) which naturally leads to low paying jobs and poverty. Coupled with social irresponsibility, which leads to teenage pregnancy, too many kids to feed....well, it's not hard to see.

Time and time again the only thing black people can do is blame the white man for their problems.

 

well, since the media that spoonfeeds them their trends is predominantly white owned, it isnt difficult to see why they blame whitey.

that isnt to say that their decisions arent their own responsibility, but it IS a good indicator of why they would be predisposed toward that particular opinion.

 

No one spoonfeeds them that shit. It comes direct from within their own society. Do you seriously think people in the "ghetto" are influenced into buying shit by the media like middle class white kids are? Everything black youths aspire to started in the "ghetto", or came across from africa in their blood.

You don't have to look far to see where "Bling" and "hoes" comes from. Just look at african tribal society...."big chiefs" and trading women for cattle....same thing.

The only thing that is unclear is whether they butcher african languages like they do with English.

 

wrong. it appears as if you are stuck in the 1800's.

wow. read ANY of these, and catch up to the rest of us:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=personality disorders as a result of race&hl=en&lr=&oi=scholart

 

Do you think it's a black thing or a poor thing? I think it's a poor thing. I also think you're a fool if you disagree.

Here: read about poverty cycles.