The African-American middle class is growing bigger and more prosperous. Research shows the still-wide economic gap between black and white consumers narrowing slowly.
Average household income for African-American families rose 1.1% annually during the 1990s, about double the average rate of increase for white households as a group, according to a study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute in Washington.
Blacks earned an average $31,778 household income compared with $51,244 for white families, as reported in the EPI study
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