作者:HARRISON, B; GORHAM, L
作者单位:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要:Much recent scholarship and popular discussion posits a substantial movement of African-American households into the middle class. Yet over the course of the 1980s, the proportion of individual black wage-earners receiving annualized (work experience-adjusted) wages and salaries in excess of about $35,000-three times the poverty line-fell by 22 percent, even as the share of African-Americans earning below the poverty line increased by a fifth. This was true for all age groups, and even for per...