(Stephen Moore | Committee to Unleash Prosperity) – Now for the deeply troubling news that no one wants to talk about for fear of being called a racist: black Americans are falling way behind everyone else.
While incomes for whites, Hispanics, and Asians rose in 2024, income for blacks fell by 3%.
Black incomes fell throughout Biden’s presidency, despite the massive welfare expansions. Bidenomics WIDENED the racial gap.
Blacks are now almost 25% poorer on average than even Hispanics.
Most black Americans have been in the U.S. for several generations, and yet newly-arrived Hispanics and Asians race ahead of them.
As Thomas Sowell and others have pointed out (and the Census data continues to confirm this) black immigrants from Africa are generally more successful than black Americans born here.
What explains this disappointing trend?
Sure, racism may still play a part in this story, but we think the single biggest factor behind this American tragedy has been that roughly half of black children now grow up in a single-parent household.
The abysmal schools run by teacher unions in inner cities play a major role too.
Worst of all, the modern welfare state has become a poverty creation machine with black America as the victim.
The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Nevada News & Views. This article was originally published via CommitteeToUnleashProsperity.com on 9/16/25.
