University of Notre Dame assistant professor of sociology Steven Alvarado used 35 years of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth from 1979 to 2014 to study what happened when multiple generations of Black, white and Latino families lived on one side of the tracks versus the other. He and his co-author found that Black families regardless of where they lived still ended up in similar economic circumstances as they moved into adulthood and entered the workforce.
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