Labor & Economic News Blog

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Stanford study finds blacks and Hispanics typically need ...

Stanford study finds blacks and Hispanics typically need ...

Researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Education have found that black and Hispanic families effectively need much higher incomes than white families to live in comparably affluent neighborhoods. As a result, middle-income black and Hispanic households are much more likely to live in poor neighborhoods – which tend to have weaker schools, more crime and bigger social problems – than whites or Asians who earn the same amount of money. This segregation may be constraining the upward mobility of black and Hispanic children compared with their white and Asian peers.

 



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