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“While this number puts the economic fragility of America’s families in a new light, the shocking statistic is that nine out of every ten…

— Thomas Shapiro

“There is no group of Americans more pessimistic than working-class whites. Well over half of blacks, Latinos, and college-educated whites expect that their children…

— J.D. Vance

By 2015, the top 1 percent of families took home more than 20 percent of income. Wealth distribution was 10 times worse than that:…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“Nationally in 2011, poor whites exceeded the poor African American total by roughly eight million: 19,171,000 versus 10,929,000.”

— Karl Alexander

“Even more surprising, 42 percent of working-class whites - by far the highest number in the survey - report that their lives are less…

— J.D. Vance

“It further appeared that the experience of living below the $2-a-day threshold didn’t discriminate by family type or race. While single-mother families were most…

— Kathryn Edin

Our families have fallen to pieces. 75 percent of all black children are born out of wedlock, without a father.

— Shelby Steele

Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos still experience…

— Sasha Abramsky

Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and their wealthy executives have recovered from the…

— James P. Hoffa

Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High school dropout…

— David Brooks

I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.

— Dickey Betts

“Partly, it is because we tend to think of black and white poverty differently. Sandra Barnes (2005, 17), citing census data from 2000, notes…

— Karl Alexander