The racial gaps are much bigger when measured upon household income because only 16 percent of black women are married in their 30s versus 58 percent of white women. The median white woman’s household income is almost 2.5 times that of the median black woman’s household income.
Chetty sounds astonished by how seldom blacks marry:
White children at the bottom of the income distribution are as likely to [grow up to] be married as black children at the 97th percentile of the parental income distribution.
Of course, one reason that blacks marry so seldom is because black men tend not to be good providers. And a sizable reason for the unsuitability of black men as husbands is, as Chetty writes:
Notably, 10.3% of black men in our sample of children were incarcerated on April 1, 2010 (between ages 27–32), a far higher rate than for any of the other subgroups.
Poster Comment:
Give reading tests to Black inmates. All those two or more years below reading level should be sufficient cause for their public schools to be ended.