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Jan 29, 2018 · Black people on average score above 8, while the average for white people is 7. The gap across poor black people and poor white people is even larger, at 1.4 points. That is a...
- Who Are The Poor Americans
Black Americans were hit harder by the recession, recovered...
- What's Killing White American Women
The rich world has got used to health and longevity getting...
- Who Are The Poor Americans
Apr 9, 2019 · Majorities across racial and ethnic groups say being white helps one’s ability to get ahead, though Asians (73%), blacks (69%) and Hispanics (61%) are more likely than whites (56%) to say this. Among whites, education and partisanship are linked to perceptions of white advantage.
Apr 6, 2017 · The health gap between the rich and poor is now far bigger than the difference in income – that’s one of the messages from a series of papers published in The Lancet today. But wealth is only...
- Different Groups See Different Levels of Conflict
- Social Conflict in American Life
- Race and Perceptions of Social Conflicts
- The Politics of Social Conflict
- Big Majority Sees at Least One Area of Major Social Conflicts
The survey found some notable demographic patterns in the public’s perceptions of social conflicts. For example, blacks, Hispanics and women are significantly more likely than whites and men to say major conflicts exist between groups in at least three of the four areas tested in the survey. Blacks, in particular, consistently see more social confl...
To measure perceptions of social conflict, a total of 1,815 persons age 16 and older were interviewed July 20-Aug. 2, 2009. Respondents were asked in separate questions “In all countries, there are differences or conflicts between different social groups. In your opinion, in America, how much conflict is there between…” blacks and whites, the poor ...
Blacks were more likely than whites to see “very strong” or “strong” conflicts in three of the four areas. In the fourth domain — disagreements between immigrants and native born — the difference also was large but fell just short of statistical significance (61%for blacks vs. 53% for whites). Nearly two-thirds (65%) of blacks but 43% of whites say...
The issue of race has been thrust onto center-stage of American politics this summer. In July, President Obama hosted a “beer summit” at the White House to try to smooth over a controversy he helped to fuel with his comments at a press conference regarding the arrest of a black Harvard professor by a white Cambridge policeman. More recently, promin...
To provide an overview of public attitudes toward social conflicts, a simple scale was created based on the four types of conflicts measured in the survey — rich and poor, black and white, immigrants and native born and young people and older adults. The scale totaled the number of realms in which each respondent believes “very strong” or “strong c...
Mar 4, 2020 · By Katherine Schaeffer. Since at least 2012, Americans have been more likely to say there are strong conflicts between Democrats and Republicans than exist between other groups in U.S. society, such as rich and poor people, young and older people, and black and white people.
- Katherine Schaeffer
May 1, 2019 · First, in Study 1, we investigate whether participants have implicit semantic associations between race (Black and White Americans) and social class (Poor and Rich). We also investigate whether these implicit semantic associations predict explicit attitudes toward redistribution, controlling for explicit prejudice.
Aug 14, 2019 · The median family wealth for white people is $171,000, compared with just $17,600 for black people. It is worse on the margins. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 19 percent of black...
