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Census reveals progress by blacks
Washington Times ^
| April 26, 2003
| James G. Lakely
Posted on 04/26/2003 12:02:31 AM PDT by farmfriend
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:02:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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More black Americans today are finishing high school, going to college, moving to the suburbs and earning higher salaries than in previous decades, while the trend of single-mother households is in historic decline, a new report shows.
According to a report released yesterday by the Census Bureau, the percentage of black families led by unmarried females is 43 percent, the lowest percentage since at least 1980, when 40 percent of black families were led by an unmarried woman.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: blacklash; blacks; buppies; census; college; davidalmasi; deneenborelli; freedomworks; jamesglakely; progress; project21; school
To: mhking; rdb3; mafree; Trueblackman
ping
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posted on
04/26/2003 12:03:04 AM PDT
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: farmfriend
Don't let Jesse Jackson know this. It will depress him.
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posted on
04/26/2003 12:08:28 AM PDT
by
Vicki
(Truth and Reality)
To: farmfriend
Does anybody have any updated figures on out of wedlock births in African-Americans? It would be great to know that they are making progress in this area, too.
To: Vicki
If this keeps up for many more years were going to have a bunch of new conservatives.
Comment #6 Removed by Moderator
To: farmfriend
"By 2002, 78.5 percent of blacks had finished high school. "
"The percentage of black Americans who have completed at least some college work or earned at least an associate degree is at a all-time high of 79 percent. "
Strange that the number that have attended college is higher than the number that finished high school, don't you think?
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posted on
04/26/2003 4:52:00 AM PDT
by
m1911
To: Red Dog #1
If this keeps up for many more years were going to have a bunch of new conservatives. Yes indeed. Same with Hispanics.
To: m1911
Maybe some of the high school drop outs got a GED and returned to school.
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posted on
04/26/2003 7:21:32 AM PDT
by
FITZ
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