Black Household Income is Rising, US Foreign-Born Gains, and More

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October 3, 2019

Immigration rights activists meet during a event to hand out pamphlets as communities braced for a reported wave of deportation raids across the United States by ICE

US foreign-born gains are smallest in a decade, except in Trump states

America's foreign-born population registered the smallest growth between 2017 and 2018 than in any year since the Great Recession, new census data reveals. In a new analysis, demographer William Frey discusses the underlying causes and implications of this shift, as well as the continued migrant dispersal trends.

Black household income is rising across the United States

The distribution of income in America is the most uneven it’s been since 1967, when the Census Bureau began tracking it. But in 2018, the median income for Black households reached its highest peak ever. Alan Berube unpacks the trend.

Not just a typographical change: Why Brookings is capitalizing Black

Brookings is adopting a long-overdue policy to properly recognize the identity of Black Americans and other people of ethnic and indigenous descent in our research and writings.

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