6 key findings about black immigration to the U.S.
Although the U.S. has long had a sizable black population as a legacy of slavery, voluntary black immigration here is projected to grow in coming decades.
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Although the U.S. has long had a sizable black population as a legacy of slavery, voluntary black immigration here is projected to grow in coming decades.
Even among Asian Americans, Indian Americans stand out as better educated, higher earning and more Democratic.
More Hispanics are already enrolled in college than ever before and, among those who are, nearly half (46%) attend a public two-year school, the highest share of any race or ethnicity.
Their population dropped devastatingly fast after their first contact with Western foreigners in 1778, but their numbers are returning to “pre-contact” levels.
Nearly 47 years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, blacks and whites in the United States in many ways continue to live starkly different lives.
Black men in their prime working years, especially those without a high school education, are much more likely to be in jail than white men are.
The share of Americans who live in middle-income households has held steady since 2010 – a flat trend that might actually be good news.
Just 7% of the nation’s 18-to-24 year olds had dropped out of high school in 2013, continuing a steady decline in the nation’s dropout rate since 2000, when 12% of youth were dropouts.
A steady demographic change over the years has resulted in a decline in the number of whites in classrooms.
Asian-American voters lag whites and blacks in turnout in midterm elections, an analysis of Census Bureau data shows.
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