Originally posted by snowdragon
As single family households increased black poverty increased (we see this to be true for all families regardless of race.) As I mentioned the unitended consequinces of the benevolent govt welfare programs didn't help:https://atlantablackstar.com/2014/12/24/ways-war-poverty-destroyed-black-fatherhood/
On the topic of first generation blacks and earnings Pew did a study:
To put that into the perspective overall:
Looks like asians took the gold medal:
Pick through that anyway you'd like, that still shows us that married families = FAR greater success and you can't legislate that, hence gotta start at the home and then look to provide things like UBI etc at the sametime.
I feel like I preemptively gave explanations for these phenomenon. So just to repeat:
I believe that single parent households and poverty is correlated, not that single parity households directly cause poverty, except in the very trivial way that of course two incomes are bigger than one, but you clearly don't have to be in poverty if you live in a single parent household, so there must be configurations that would lift people in single parent households out of poverty. I would also look at what might be reasons that it has been harder to form two parent households, one explanation may lie in the American incarceration crisis, that puts so many black men into prisons.
As for Immigrant Black incomes, they can alternatively be explained by the slightly smaller structural problems they face than native born Black Americans, the selection of immigrants as higher educated. None of the things you quoted suggest that individual choices rather than socio-economic explanations are a significant part in the outcomes we can observe.