New research from Sandy Darity underscores the economic vulnerability of the black middle class. "For Black Americans, the issue may not be restoring its middle class," the authors write, "but constructing a robust middle class in the first place." Credit: Duke University The "middle class" can be hard to define. A new report from Duke University suggests that for African Americans it’s simply hard to find—and that’s in the best of circumstances.
The paper from researchers at Duke’s Samuel DuBois Cook Center for Social Equity finds that when using wealth as the defining criteria to demarcate class status, the middle […]
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