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Title: Race and Poverty: Divergent fortunes of America's Children?

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2006

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Abstract: It is widely believed that children in America may be on separate tracks into adulthood. On one track are economically advantaged children, many of whom reside with two highly educated parents. The other track typically includes poor children residing with a single mother or with two parents struggling to make ends meet in a changing global economy. In many ways, these tracks represent distinct fortunes along lines of racial and ethnic background. White children are proportionally over-represented among the more advantaged segments of the child population, while children of historically disadvantaged racial minorities and Americas "new" immigrants make up disproportionately large shares of the economically deprived.How true is this perception? In the study whose findings we summarize here, our goal is to document racial differentials in child poverty, while also evaluating the potentially divergent economic paths among Americas racial and ethnic minority children. The key question here is not whether the children of racial and ethnic minorities are poor, but whetherand to what extentthey are joining the American economic mainstream. Our findings demonstrate that analyses of poverty, without attention to racial/ethnic diversity and inequality, misrepresent the changing circumstances of Americas disadvantaged children.

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Authors: Crowley, Martha L.; Qian, Zhenchao; Lichter, Daniel T.

Periodical (Full): FOCUS

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Pages: 8-16

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare, Race and Ethnicity

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