The Rise of the Black Middle Class in the United States

A number of people have made really quite bold claims about progress among African Americans. They've used data from the current population survey to make the claim that the high school dropout rate among young black men has declined. But my research shows that if you include inmates who are disproportionately high school dropouts, there's been no decline in the racial gap in the highSchool dropout rate. Among young black men who've dropped out of high school they're more likely to be in prison or jail than they are to be employed now. The voter turnout rate among those most disadvantaged young black men was the same as it was Voter turnout and by this I mean the fraction of the population that voted not of