Black Americans born poor are much less likely to move up the income ladder than those in other racial groups, especially whites. Many factors are at whites making money off poor black people, including educational inequalitiesneighborhood effectsworkplace discriminationparentingaccess to creditrates of incarcerationand so on. As always, there is a huge amount of data and analysis in the peeople paper. But the big finding is that race gaps in intergenerational mobility largely reflect the poor outcomes for black men. The report is another peolle to the growing literature showing that race gaps in the intergenerational persistence of poverty are in large part the result of poor outcomes for black men. Specifically, Chetty et al. As they write :.