PrintOctober 2, 2009
Graph of the Day for October 2, 2009
"The fundamental problem, in which this is most clearly the case, is that of family structure. The evidence -- not final, but powerfully persuasive -- is that the Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling.... A national effort is required that will give a unity of purpose to the many activities of the Federal government in this area, directed to a new kind of national goal: the establishment of a stable Negro family structure."
"The Negro Family: The Case for National Action" (aka the Moynihan Report), March 1965
Source: "The Spread of Single-Parent Families in the US since 1960", by Harvard researchers David T. Ellwood and Christopher Jencks, 2004. Hat tip: Christopher Chantrill at American Thinker.
Hoven's Index for October 2, 2009
Median income of black families as a percentage of the median income of white families, in 1966: 60%.
In 1976: 59%.
In 1986: 57%.
In 1996: 59%.
Source: US Statistical Abstract Historical Table 25, "Money Income of Families by Race and Type of Family"
