Black child poverty is triple the white rate across half of US states

Evidence

For all these reasons, poverty is growing in black America. One out of four African Americans lives in poverty today. One out of three black children grows up in poverty, while only one out of ten white children lives in poverty. One out of five black children is growing up in extreme poverty. That child’s parents make less than 11,746 a year for a family of four. They live on 979 a month, 226 a week, or what ends up being 32 a day. In twenty-five of the fifty states and in the District of Columbia, at least 40 percent of African American children are poor. This is galling for a nation that considers itself the leader of the free world and a pioneer of democratic principles. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 50