Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
These numbers increased for single-parent homes, with 26.6% of all single-parent families living in poverty, [88] 22.5% of all white single-parent people, [89] 44.0% of all single-parent black people, [90] and 33.4% of all single-parent Hispanic people [91] living in poverty.
In 2006, 12.9 million families in the US were headed by a single parent, 80% of which were headed by a female. [8] [9] The newest census bureau reports that between 1960 and 2016, the percentage of children living in families with two parents decreased from 88 to 69.
In 1900, when the U.S. population was 76 million, there were 66.8 million white Americans in the United States, representing 88% of the total population, [38] 8.8 million Black Americans, with about 90% of them still living in Southern states, [39] and slightly more than 500,000 Hispanics.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The largest African American population growth in pure numbers over the past decade didn't take place in Atlanta or Houston, long identified as hubs of Black life, but rather in less congested ...
The table below shows the percentage of free blacks as a percentage of the total black population in various U.S. regions and U.S. states between 1790 and 1860 (the blank areas on the chart below mean that there is no data for those specific regions or states in those specific years). [citation needed]
One in 10 Black people living in the U.S. are immigrants, and the number is only expected to rise, according to new data. Growth of Black immigrant population projected to outpace growth of U.S ...
Single-parent homes in America are increasingly common. With more children being born to unmarried couples and to couples whose marriages subsequently dissolve, more children live with just one parent. The proportion of children living with a never-married parent has grown, from 4% in 1960 to 42% in 2001. [33] Of all single-parent families, 83% ...