African Americans, Latinos and Economic Opportunity in the 21st Century
Posted by on August 25, 2006
African Americans, Latinos and Economic Opportunity in the 21st Century
By Jennifer Wheary, Demos
The United States faces major challenges in sustaining a strong middle class in the decades ahead. Rapidly changing, often volatile economic conditions are making it more difficult to enter the middle class — and stay there. Even as the bar to a middle class life is raised higher, economic opportunity is fading. As a result, the most rapidly growing groups in the U.S. — particularly African Americans and Latinos — face growing obstacles to entering, and staying in, America’s middle class.
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