Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
During the past forty years, African Americans have posted significant gains in average wealth and income. But researchers have found that the black middle class is still dangerously vulnerable, and more prone to downward mobility than other demographic groups. A new report suggests that economic success of individual families is intimately related to fortunes of their neigbhorhoods. We examine how community poverty affects individual outcomes.
Guests
- Patrick Sharkey Assistant Professor of Sociology, New York University, author of the new report "Neighborhoods and the Black-White Mobility Gap", Economic Mobility Project, Pew Charitable Trusts
- Peter Tatian Senior Research Associate, the Urban Institute's Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center
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