Marriage closes White-Black Poverty Rates

Here economist Walter Williams shows that personal choices dominate the economic disparity between blacks and whites today. This essay only looks at blacks and whites, and only considers a single variable, marriage. Other essays by other eonomists (and by Williams) have examined other "races" in America, and other factors, such as college degrees, and types of college degrees. Examining these different groups, and accounting for other personal-choice factors, it becomes clear that whites are not the most successful group in the US, and that "race" catagorization does not explain relative differences in overall success. Rather, the cummulative choices by people in these groups determines their collective success. Whites have a higher marriage rate than blacks, and hence lower poverty rates. Whites are also more likely to go to college, and in college to select higher quality majors. Asian and Arab immigrants have even higher marriage and college rates than whites, and are more successful as well.