1. THE NEGRO AND POVERTY.
- Author
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Gallaway, Lowell E.
- Subjects
ECONOMIC conditions of African Americans ,POVERTY ,EDUCATION ,RACE discrimination ,INCOME inequality ,EMPIRICAL research - Abstract
The article explains various aspects of Negro life and their economic conditions and poverty. The relatively large number of Negroes in poverty has been explained in a variety of ways, for example, differential levels of education, market discrimination, or other factors associated with race. In this brief paper, an attempt will be made to evaluate the relative contribution to Negro poverty of two factors, namely educational differences between Negroes and whites and a composite of all other elements correlated with race. The article presents a conceptual framework of the process of income distribution, which will be of assistance in identifying the impacts of both race and disparate education levels. Second, some empirical evidence will be presented which sheds light on the relationships suggested by the conceptual framework. Finally, the significance of the empirical evidence for the policy issues implicit in the problem of the relative incidence of poverty among Negroes will be discussed.
- Published
- 1967
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