Sunday, May 23, 2010

Brandeis study: Black poverty increased 4x from '84 to '07

I know that conservatives will blame welfare for increasing black poverty. Anyway, I humbly submit the following awful statistics.

"The gap between Black and white household wealth quadrupled from 1984 to 2007."

"Viewed another way, the median white family was 11 times richer than the median Black family in 1984 ($2,000 vs. $22,000). By 2007, the white household had become 20 times richer than its Black counterpart($5,000 vs. $100,000)."


By Glen Ford
May 19, 2010 | Black Agenda Report

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