{"id":64964,"date":"2014-11-15T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=64964"},"modified":"2014-12-21T13:59:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T18:59:16","slug":"chart-of-the-week-a-majority-of-middle-class-black-children-will-be-poorer-as-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/11\/15\/chart-of-the-week-a-majority-of-middle-class-black-children-will-be-poorer-as-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart of the Week: A Majority of Middle Class Black Children Will Be Poorer as Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social mobility refers to likelihood that a person born in one social class will end up in another as an adult.\u00a0A new study<\/a> by Richard Reeves and Isabel Sawhill for the Brookings Institute offered a devastating picture of the possibilities for black youth. To summarize: most black children see downward mobility and are poorer as adults than they were as children.<\/p>\n

\"4\"<\/a>More than half of black children born into the poorest 1\/5th of households will remain there as adults. That’s only true for 36% of similarly-situated Americans overall. Poor black children, then, are less likely than Americans in general to be able to escape poverty.<\/p>\n

Black children born into the middle class — literally the middle 5th of Americans as measured by household income — overwhelmingly see downward mobility. 16% will remain somewhere in the middle, 14% will be richer than their parents, and a whopping 69% will end up less economically stable. In comparison, only 38% of Americans, overall, born into the middle 5th see a decline in their status as adults.<\/p>\n

As you may have noticed from the hole in the far right of the chart, the researchers didn’t have enough cases\u00a0to even estimate outcomes for blacks born rich.<\/p>\n

Below is the data for whites (first) and all Americans (second) for comparison:<\/p>\n

\"3\"<\/a>\"2\"<\/a>Here’s the first author,\u00a0Richard Reeves, explaining<\/a> social mobility, using Legos of course:<\/p>\n

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H\/t Joe Feagin<\/a>.\u00a0Cross-posted at Pacific Standard<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Social mobility refers to likelihood that a person born in one social class will end up in another as an adult.\u00a0A new study by Richard Reeves and Isabel Sawhill for the Brookings Institute offered a devastating picture of the possibilities for black youth. To summarize: most black children see downward mobility and are poorer as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":64972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,3920,8118,285,1760,1757],"class_list":["post-64964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-nation-united-states","tag-organizationsinstitutions","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/11\/27.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64964"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65482,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64964\/revisions\/65482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}