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Old Posted Oct 5, 2019, 10:02 PM
jtown,man jtown,man is offline
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Originally Posted by Steely Dan View Post
But in the context of the black community of Chicago, the article states that black households only make about 43% of what white households make (an astonishing divide, btw, far larger than the national difference)
I wouldn't read too far into that stat. Chicago has a large poverty-stricken population that is most likely single-parent households and receiving government assistance compared to the overall American black population.
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