Apr 03 2022 18 mins
In this episode, a comparison is made between two economic classes (middle class & those living below the poverty level) within the black community. Does Education Play a Major Role in Moving from the Poverty Level to the Middle class?
Key Points:
- The middle and upper-middle-class is growing within the Black Community
- Education plays a major role in earning capacity
- Education should be the #1 priority in the Black Community
Resources
African-American Buying Power Tops $1 Trillion 10/03/2016
Report: Black Students Underrepresented in High-Paying STEM Majors | STEM Solutions | US News
Gene Dattel, Reckoning with Race: America’s Failure (New York: Encounter Books, 2017), 286