There are certainly more factors facing blacks, no doubt but the numbers simply do not show those factors are as large of an impact as single parent households.
The poverty rate for all Married couples in the US is 4.7%
The poverty rate for Black Married couples is 6.2%
The poverty rate for Blacks in the US is 19.5%
That means as of 2020 blacks households are about 3.15 times less likely to be in poverty when housed by a married couple.
52% of whites are married and 30% of blacks are married. White households are married 76% more than black households.
Family structure in the US is now the single largest indicator of poverty in the US. Race is another but it not even in the same ball park as being from a single parent family. There is still a lot of work ahead of us but discounting the value of the family structure isn't going to help. This was not the case 30 years ago.
In 2022, around five percent of married-couple families in the United States lived below the national poverty level.
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In 2022, 5.6 percent of Black married-couple families were living below the poverty line in the United States.
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In 2022, 17.1 percent of Black people living in the United States were living below the poverty line, compared to 8.6 percent of white people.
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Black Marriage in America | Statistics: 30% of African Americans were married compared to 48% of all Americans. Half or 50% have never been
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