Middle-class black families’ children more often fall out of the middle class than stay

Evidence

In some ways, this is an even more depressing fact than the poor rates of upward mobility,” the authors wrote. “Even black Americans who make it to the middle class are likely to see their kids fall down the ladder. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 479

Categorization

• XREF: Brookings ‘Five Bleak Facts’ claim of downward mobility for middle-class black children — a citable stat for the reader’s argument.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 479