The Resilience of Black Child Poverty

Last month, the Pew Research Center pointed out that in 2013, for the first time since the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting this data, the number of black children in poverty overtook the number of white children in poverty. In fact, the number of white children who live under the poverty line has exceeded black children only by a small amount for years. But what the figure now highlights is that while the child poverty rate for whites, Hispanics, and Asians declined between 2011 and 2013, the black child poverty rate remained relatively stable, at over 38 percent.

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