| Abstract: | Conclusion These very positive gains in economic well-being for certain categories of black families do not surprise us. Those in which
the head is under 35 and live in the North and the West have had relatively more opportunity open to them as a result of some
of the strong enforcement policies of the late sixties and affirmative action programs. This group of the black population,
by and large, is better educated, more mobile, and more job-ready. It is, therefore, in a position to be more productive and
thereby earn relatively higher incomes when society relaxes some of its discriminating tendencies. No such advantages, however,
are available to the households headed by females or older households which comprise the overwhelming members of families
in poverty. |
