) relates to Black-White inequality in poverty among single mother households and among married with children households in the … poverty among individuals within the same family structure. Background: Family structure is a dominant explanation for racial … inequality in poverty. This overemphasis on an “individual-level” variable results in relatively less attention to the role of …

Marriage and work have long been central to debates regarding poverty and the family. Although ample research … demonstrate their negative association with child poverty, both marriage and work have undergone major transformations over recent … decades. Consequently, it is plausible that their association with child poverty may have also changed. Using ten waves of U …

Although the working poor are a much larger population than the unemployed poor, American poverty research has devoted … much more attention to joblessness than to working poverty. Research that does exist on working poverty concentrates on …, and states as polities, we examine the influence of a potentially important labor market institution for working poverty …

measure of the historical racial regime (HRR), and examines how HRR influences contemporary poverty and racial inequality in … with greater poverty for all and especially not among White Southerners. Rather, a higher level of HRR worsens Black … poverty and especially Black-White inequalities in poverty. Further, HRR explains a significant share of the Black …

While American poverty research has devoted greater attention to poverty in the Northeast and Midwest, poverty has been … persistently higher in the U.S. South than other regions. Thus, this study investigates the enduring question of why poverty is …, yet also considers family demography, economic structure, and racial/ethnic heterogeneity. Using six waves (2000-2016) of …