The official poverty rate in 2022 was 11.5%, not statistically different from 2021, and for Black Americans it was 17.1%, the lowest on record. The supplemental poverty measure was 12.4%, an ...

Incarceration fees in 48 states are placing a heavy financial load on families, particularly Black women, according to a new ...

In 2022, the Black population was overrepresented in poverty. Approximately 40% of Black birthing people experienced poverty before giving birth and around the time of birth.

The 8% poverty rate among Black residents isn’t the only reason why Murfreesboro ranks at the top of our study. Black households here have a median income of $94,972 per year, which is the ...

The Black poverty rate hit a record low during Trump’s presidency in 2019 at 18.8%. The poverty rate has fallen further under Biden’s presidency, hitting 17.1% in 2022, the last year for which ...

Poverty became an excuse for surveillance and criminalization — including violent over-policing, child protective services breaking apart families and the mass incarceration of Black men.

Pew has found that the wealth of white households was 13 times the median wealth of black households in 2013, compared with eight times the wealth in 2010. Black Americans are far less likely to own ...

That's almost 60% of Black people, but 66 million are white, which is 40 million more than Black people in raw numbers, but 30% of white people. The bottom line is this is an American crisis.

The Black poverty rate hit a record low during Trump’s presidency in 2019 at 18.8%. The poverty rate has fallen further under Biden’s presidency, hitting 17.1% in 2022, the last year for which ...