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Originally posted by DSTCHAOS
@ your first paragraph: That goes for the average American, regardless of race or gender. But, you are correct in that it has a differential impact on women, blacks, and Hispanics because of the wage gap (which is fueled by persisting gender and race inequality).
Regardless of the "fabulously broke lifestyle hypothesis" and the "maybe these black women are single mothers hypothesis," the main point is that black women are more likely to be in the labor force AND to work 2 jobs for wage gap reasons.
Because blacks and Hispanics are disproportionately poor, they are least likely to receive support from "somewhere else." This is compounded by gender and is reflected in black women's greater "need" to be in the laborforce and to have more than one job.
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May be so, however, I was one of the few women that worked 2 jobs when I was younger because I had to pay rent. Now, where I lived was of issue, which may have put me fabulously broke. However, I think I did it mainly to have "comfort items", rather than making ends meet...
But that's just me and my life. The census data does not suggest a social implication, the data just show numbers with a relative correlation to whatever the question was that they designed: i.e. what types of people are getting paid the highest wages--or even more broader than that...
I even doubt they developed a hypothesis until after they got all the data calculated and noticed some trends... It would be nice to see their actual stats that they used.