The average income for the bottom quintile remains a critical concern for leadership, and prompts providing access to opportunities to resources to improve the lives of the poor not only in the United States but globally.
Trends in strategic economic and demographic statistics and indicators offer clues to certain perspectives and frameworks current experiences and viewpoints the poor and low income families, and Black Americans. Whereas there has been apparently distinct and theoretical progress in reducing the black and white gap in certain areas – predominantly in the rates of high school completion; there persists the ancient White-Black gaps in socio-economic well-being; the gaps have expanded in many cases. (PEW Research Center, 2016
Trends in strategic economic and demographic statistics and indicators offer clues to certain perspectives and frameworks current experiences and viewpoints the poor and low income families, and Black Americans. Whereas there has been apparently distinct and theoretical progress in reducing the black and white gap in certain areas – predominantly in the rates of high school completion; there persists the ancient White-Black gaps in socio-economic well-being; the gaps have expanded in many cases. (PEW Research Center, 2016