The recession’s toll: Number of N.J. children with an unemployed parent has spiked dramatically, Census says, By Stephen Stirling, August 29, 2013, Star-Ledger: “A new U.S. Census study shows New Jersey is slowly crawling back after faltering dramatically during the Great Recession. And families with children may have the highest climb. The number of New Jersey families with children who have at least one unemployed parent has risen sharply since 2005, at nearly double the national rate…”
Day: August 29, 2013
Economic Inequality and Race
Fifty years after March on Washington, economic gap between blacks, whites persists, By Michael A. Fletcher, August 27, 2013, Washington Post: “Even as racial barriers have tumbled and the nation has grown wealthier and better educated, the economic disparities separating blacks and whites remain as wide as they were when marchers assembled on the Mall in 1963. When it comes to household income and wealth, the gaps between blacks and whites have widened. On other measures, the gaps are roughly the same as they were four decades ago. The poverty rate for blacks, for instance, continues to be about three times that of whites…”