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Are you considering moving to a new city
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Before you pack your boxes, you might want to check and see if the city you're moving to made it to our list of the 5 Worst Cities in America for Blacks
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Or if the city you're in right now is on this list, you might want to think about moving
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Hi my name is Jarrett and welcome to The Five where we share 5 interesting things in Black
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culture and society in every episode. Don't forget to subscribe and hit that bell so you can get notified when we
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release new videos. 24-7 Wall Street ranked the nation's metropolitan areas
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based on racial disparities in income, education, health, incarceration, and white black achievement gaps in other social economic outcomes using data from the
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US Census Bureau, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Bureau
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of Justice Statistics. And here are the findings starting from the fifth worst
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Number 5, Danville, Illinois. Danville is located in Vermillion County Illinois and has an estimated population of 30 as of 2019 About 14 of the population in Danville is black and of those 48 live in poverty Not surprisingly Danville has the third highest black mortality rate in the nation
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The home ownership rate for blacks in the city is 32% while it is 76% for white residents
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The median black income is just $23,963 which is 49% of white income
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4. Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons, so the city's appearance on the list is not surprising
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What's surprising about the Twin Cities making it on the list is that while black residents fare below the national average on various metrics
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white residents actually fare higher than the national average on the same metrics
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Blacks make up 8% of the Minneapolis population. The median black income in the city is $34,174, while the median white income is $78,706
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Black home ownership rate is 25.4% but 75.3% for whites. Number 3 Waterloo Cedar Falls Iowa At number 3 is a city with one of the highest gaps in unemployment rates between whites and blacks The gap is a shocking 15
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Black residents in Waterloo had a 19.7% unemployment rate in the city in 2019
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while white unemployment rate was just at 4%. Not surprisingly, what proceeds is another large gap in high school graduation rates between the two races
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Blacks have a high school graduation rate of 80.2% while whites have a
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graduation rate of 93.6%. The result is an almost 50% median income gap between
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whites and blacks in the city. Number two Racine Wisconsin. In Racine Wisconsin
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30.8% of black residents live in poverty which is almost four times the rate of
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poverty for white residents. The black median income is $27,658 with only 30% black home
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ownership rates. 10% of the 77,000 population in Racine is black and that population had
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a 13 unemployment rate in 2019 Only 7 of black adults in the city even have a bachelor degree Coming in at number one is the worst city in America for Blacks Milwaukee Wisconsin
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Milwaukee has some of the worst racial disparities in income, health, and other social economic
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measures in the country. Milwaukee is also one of the most segregated cities in America
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While 16.8% of blacks live in predominantly black neighborhoods nationwide, 35.2% of Milwaukee's
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black residents live in predominantly black neighborhoods. The median household income for blacks in Milwaukee is $29,928 while it is $66,097 for whites
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The unemployment rate was an overwhelming 14% for blacks and just 4% for whites while
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the home ownership rate was 27.8% for blacks and 68.2% for whites
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Do you live in any of the five cities that we just mentioned? Do you agree or disagree with this list
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Then let us know in the comments. That's it for this video, we'll be back with another episode on Black Culture and Society
