Thought you might be interested Thursday: Don't ignore class when addressing racial gaps in intergenerational mobility
What Joe Cortright has to say about it in City Observatory's Week Observed: April 27, 2018:
Harvard's William Julius Wilson has a review and commentary of the latest Raj Chetty/Nate Hendren Equality of Opportunity Project research on the persistence of racial gaps in intergenerational economic mobility. He says the importance of this research can't be overstated, and that it should change our views of how the word works. Wilson stresses the finding that the presence of fathers (and not just one's own father) in a neighborhood seems to be strongly correlated with intergenerational mobility, especially for black boys. But the problem is that fewer than 5 percent of black children live in the kind of low poverty, father-rich neighborhoods that are associated with economic mobility. As a result, we need to pay much more attention to the combined effect of race and class as they interact: black households are now more segregated by income that white or Latino households, meaning the effects of concentrated poverty bear more heavily on black families.
