Black americans Quote by Thomas Shapiro

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

— Karl Alexander

“Millions of Americans instinctively associate “poverty” with “black.”

— David Cay Johnston

“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

“cross-national studies show that the U.S. poverty rate, which stands persistently above 12 percent, is not only the highest poverty rate of any advanced…

— Cal Jillson

“The most recent data available from the U.S. Census’s SIPP show that 90 million people, nearly one-third of all Americans, experienced poverty for two…

— Jonathan Morduch

Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be…

— Walter E. Williams

“number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with poverty”

— J.D. Vance

Too often the media assumes that "poverty" is an African American or a Latino issue. Of course, that's nonsense. While a higher percentage of…

— Sasha Abramsky

“The challenge is more difficult because low-income African Americans today confront not only segregation but also the income stagnation and blocked mobility faced by…

— Richard Rothstein

“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

We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living in poverty.

— Donald Trump

“Two out of ten U.S. children of all backgrounds live in poverty, and one-third of black and close to one-third of Latino children are…

— Sheryl Sandberg