#1 For decades, the unemployment rate for black Americans has consistently been more than twice as high as the unemployment rate for white Americans. In July 2014, the official unemployment rate for white Americans was
5.3 percent. Meanwhile, the official unemployment rate for black Americans was
11.4 percent.
#2 A report released earlier this year discovered that the “underemployment rate” for African-American workers was
20.5 percent. But for white Americans it was only
11.8 percent.
#3 A study released back in 2012 found that the average white household has
22 times as much wealth as the average black household.
#4 African-American households make up only about 13 percent of the population, but they receive
more than 26 percent of the food stamp benefits.
#5 One study discovered that 82 percent of white students graduate from high school but only
63.5 percent of black students do.
#6 Pew Research found that the income gap between white Americans and black Americans has continued to grow
ever since the late 1960s…
The difference in median household incomes between whites and blacks has grown from about $19,000 in 1967 to
roughly $27,000 in 2011 (as measured in 2012 dollars).
#7 In the United States today,
12 percent of white children live in areas of concentrated poverty, but
45 percent of African-American children do.
#8 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 19.9 percent of white children live in single parent homes. But for black children, the number is an astounding
52.1 percent.
#9 Since 1960, the percentage of white American adults that are married has declined from 74 percent to 55 percent. But for African-Americans the decline has been even more dramatic. Since 1960, the percentage of black American adults that are married has declined
from 61 percent to 31 percent.
#10 In the United States, the incarceration rate for black men
is more than six times higher than it is for white men.
