Torn Apart? The Impact of Manufacturing Employment Decline on Black and White Americans

Abstract This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment decline on socioeconomic outcomes within and between black white americans since 1960. The analysis shows that had a negative blacks in terms their wages, employment, marriage rates, house values, poverty death single parenthood, teen motherhood, child poverty, mortality. In addition, increased inequality community for wages other outcomes. Similar patterns are found whites, but to lesser degree—leading larger gaps whites patterns, single-parenthood, rates.