Sentences with phrase «white households»

In contrast, the median net worth of white households dropped by only 16 percent.

And Parent Trigger laws can help advance systemic reform by addressing an aspect of education that many reformers, especially those from white households that aren't religious, don't have to consider.

From 2005 to 2009, inflation - adjusted median wealth fell by 66 % among Hispanic households and 53 % among black households, compared with just 16 % among white households.

From 1993 to 1998, home ownership for white households increased by 3.4 percent.

As a result, even those households of color that could get on the property ladder didn't see the same return on their investment as white households.

Likewise, the wealth of white households is now more than 10 times the wealth of Hispanic households, compared with nine times the wealth in 2010.

The # 1 hardcover fiction on NY Times Combined Print & E-Book Fiction list is The Help by Kathryn Stockett, the 544 - page blockbuster novel about African - American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s.

Referencing investigative journalist John Pilger from his 2006 book Freedom Next Time, O» Toole states that «while the average white household income in South Africa has risen by 15 % in the post-apartheid period, the average black household income has fallen by 19 %.»

From 2010 to 2013, the median wealth of non-Hispanic white households increased from $ 138,600 to $ 141,900, or by 2.4 %.

In 2011, the median white household had a net worth of $ 111,146, compared with $ 7,113 for the median black household and $ 8,348 for the median Hispanic household.

While the majority of low - and middle - income white households with credit card debt report good or excellent credit, the opposite is true for African Americans.

For example, the homeownership rate for non-Hispanic white households fell from 75.3 % in 2010 to 73.9 % in 2013, a percentage drop of 2 %.

The study found that the wealth gap between white households and minorities has widened in recent years.

For example, regardless of their income, White households live, on average, in neighborhoods that are 80 % White (see the lower - right panel of the figure), while Black and Hispanic households generally live in neighborhoods that are roughly 35 % -50 % White.

Most white households (59 percent) report scores of 700 or above, displaying strong credit, while less than one quarter of African Americans (24 percent) are able to attain the same high credit rating status.

These should also be primed with gesso or you could, at a push, use white household emulsion or latex paint.

For his first solo exhibition in 1948, De Kooning showed a remarkable series of energetic large - scale canvases in black and white household paint that fused elements of European Cubism and Surrealism with a distinctly American sensibility.

In 1946, too poor to buy artists» pigments, he turned to black and white household enamels to paint a series of large abstractions; of these works, Light in August (c. 1946) and Black Friday (1948) are essentially black with white elements, whereas Zurich (1947) and Mailbox (1947/48) are white with black.

Fannie Mae's latest Own - Rent Analysis shows the U.S. population is projected to grow by 130 million people by 2050, at which time white households will comprise about 46 percent of the population, down from 65 percent today.

A 2016 piece by The New York Times found that in many of the country's biggest metros, black households earning more than $ 100,000 or more were still more likely to live in poorer neighborhoods than white households bringing in less than $ 25,000.

«Not only were white households less likely to be foreclosed on, but they also were among the first to leave neighborhoods where foreclosures were high, particularly those with racially diverse residents,» says Hall.

Sixty - five percent of white households in our sample describe their credit scores as good or excellent, much higher than the 44 percent of African American households who identify in the good or excellent categories.

The net worth of the average black household in the United States is $ 6,314, compared with $ 110,500 for the average white household, according to 2011 census data... The black - white income gap is roughly 40 percent greater today than it was in 1967... Black men in their 20s without a high school diploma are more likely to be incarcerated today than employed...

I've shared the statistics before: Homeownership among minority households hovers near 50 percent, but among white households, it averages about 72 percent.

Among households with credit card debt who know their credit score within a range, just 15 percent of white households in our sample have credit scores below 620, compared to more than a third of African American households.

Latino households are still roughly half as likely to own a computer as white households and nearly 2.5 times less likely to use the Internet;

You're also less likely to have accessed nature if you're from a black and minority ethnic (BAME) community as, according to Natural England, just 56 per cent of under 16s from BAME households visited the natural environment at least once a week, compared to 74 per cent from white households.

Black households now earn 61 cents for every dollar in a white household and Latinx households earn 73 cents on the dollar, up from 59 cents and 71 cents, respectively, in 2015.

White households are nearly 13 times richer than African - American ones.

The wealth of white households was 13 times the median wealth of black households in 2013, compared with eight times the wealth in 2010, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of data from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances.

A recently released NAHB special study explores the geographic differences in homeownership rates between Hispanic or Latino and white households (as well as between black and white households, the highlight of a previous blog).

And the wealth of white households was more than 10 times that of Hispanic households, up from nine times the wealth in 2010.

The wealth of white households was 13 times greater than that of black households in 2013, versus eight times the wealth in 2010.

The Census Bureau findings reaffirm a recent study published by the Pew Research Centre, demonstrating that the gap between the average black and average white households in 2009 widened to margins unparalleled since the 1980s, when median white household wealth was about $ 113,000, compared to about $ 5,700 for black families.

The net worth of the average black household in the United States is $ 6,314, compared with $ 110,500 for the average white household, according to 2011 census data, and generally white people are richer than black people.

D.C. suffers from steep wealth inequality, which maps along racial lines: According to a 2016 report from the Urban Institute, white households in D.C. boast a net worth 81 times greater than that of the average black household.

Gugu Mbatha - Raw also appears in Belle, the story of a young black woman, brought up in a white household in 1800s England.

In 2010 only 56 percent of African American households reported having broadband access compared to 67 percent of white households (Home Broadband 2010).

For instance, in 1999, the median income of an African American household was $ 46,580 compared to $ 101,371 for a white household.

The average black household income in 1955 ($ 2,890) was 55 percent of that of white households ($ 5,228).

According to Prosperity Now, a national nonprofit to expand economic opportunity for low - income families, and the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank, white households have seven times the amount of wealth as African Americans, and six times as much as Latinos.

From the almost unimaginable cruelty of John Voss's parents to Mrs. Whiting's coldness toward Cindy, to Grace's emotional withdrawal from David (and to some extent Miles) when she joins the Whiting household, the novel contains several examples of the emotional and physical harm parents inflict on their children.

Although a significant portion of that growth was generated by minority and low - income buyers, minority homeownership has barely made a dent in the disproportionate share of the homeownership market held by white households.

Minorities made up 40 percent of the net growth in homebuyers over the last half of the 1990s, but those impressive gains do little to close the gap with white households.

Homeownership among minority households hovers near 50 percent, but among white households, it averages about 72 percent.

White households, however, receive almost 80 percent of the tax break's benefits.