Decades after civil rights movement, income gap between black and white has grown

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Decades after the civil rights movement, the income gap between black and white families has grown, says a new study that tracked the incomes of some 2,300 families for more than 30 years.

Incomes have increased among both black and white families in the past three decades -- mainly because more women are in the work force. But the increase was greater among whites, according to the study being released Tuesday.

One reason for the growing disparity: Incomes among black men have actually declined in the past three decades, when adjusted for inflation. They were offset only by gains among black women.

Incomes among white men, meanwhile, were relatively stagnant, while those of white women increased more than fivefold.

"Overall, incomes are going up. But not all children are benefiting equally from the American dream," said Julia Isaacs, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.

Isaacs wrote a series of three reports that looked at the incomes of parents in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and of their grown children 30 years later. Isaacs compared the incomes of parents who were in their 30s with the incomes of their children, once they reached the same age group.

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Isaacs compiled the reports for the Economic Mobility Project, a collaboration of senior economists and researchers from four Washington think tanks that span the ideological spectrum. The project is funded and managed by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Isaacs used survey data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, which is conducted at the University of Michigan.

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[almaty 19]

hmmm.. i am waiting for this thread to turn into a war...

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hmmm.. i am waiting for this thread to turn into a war...

Why would it turn into a war? That this country has done the black man wrong is hardly debatable.

[almaty 19]

hmmm.. i am waiting for this thread to turn into a war...

Why would it turn into a war? That this country has done the black man wrong is hardly debatable.

i agree...and the black woman too.....

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hmmm.. i am waiting for this thread to turn into a war...

Why would it turn into a war? That this country has done the black man wrong is hardly debatable.

i agree...and the black woman too.....

According to the study, black women have been doing aiiight.....

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[almaty 19]

hmmm.. i am waiting for this thread to turn into a war...

Why would it turn into a war? That this country has done the black man wrong is hardly debatable.

i agree...and the black woman too.....

According to the study, black women have been doing aiiight.....

not in the past