Study Shows 3 Pivotal Life Choices, Not Racism, Keep Non-White People In Poverty
May 24, 2022
A recent study shows that racism is not what is keeping people, specifically non-white Americans, in poverty — it’s personal decisions. Specifically, it’s dropping out of high school, not working full-time, and having kids before marriage. With these three factors present, the non-white poverty rate skyrockets to over 50 percent.
However, graduating high school, getting a full-time job, and having kids after marriage — a formula called the success sequence — drops the poverty rate down to 4 percent for blacks and 3 percent for Hispanics and whites, according to a 2022 study by the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies.
