The Economic Justice We Should Be Voting For

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https://ourfuture.org/20160315/the-economic-justice-we-should-be-voting-for?utm_source=progressive_breakfast&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pbreak

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Polls are open Tuesday in four cities that are listed among the 10 “worst cities for black Americans” and two of “America’s most segregated cities,” according to reports published last year by 24/7 Wall St.

The four worst cities for black people are all in Illinois. The list includes fourth-worst Chicago, as one might expect, where the median income of African-American households is half that of white households and where the African-American unemployment rate was estimated at 18.5 percent (compared to 7 percent Chicago-wide and about 5 percent nationally.) But it also includes Rockford, second worst in the nation, where the African-American unemployment rate was nearly 29 percent and where for each dollar a white household earned, a black household only earned 44 cents. (The other two cities are Peoria and Kankakee.)

The most segregated cities that will be voting in primaries Tuesday are both in Ohio: fifth-ranked Cincinnati and number-one-ranked Cleveland. “Of the roughly 100 zip codes in the [Cleveland] area, 63 are predominantly white and are home to nearly 70 percent of Cleveland’s white population,” according to the 24/7 Wall St. report. “The metro area’s black population is similarly segregated, with 30.9 percent concentrated in just six zip codes.”

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1. I'm sure Clinton will help 'em out