Worst States for Black Americans?
Website says Alabama is on the list of the ten worst.
The website 24/7 Wall Street has ranked the states and come up with a list of the ten worst for Black Americans. Alabama is ranked 10th, the only Deep South State on the list.
The website officials say they developed the list by examining factors like
“….median household income, poverty, high school and bachelor’s educational attainment rates, and home-ownership rates — each broken out by race. Unemployment rates for 2015 come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Incarceration rates came from the Prison Policy Initiative, a Massachusetts-based think tank, and are as of 2010, the most recent year for which data are available. Also from 2010, the percentage of the population that is disenfranchised comes from the Sentencing Project. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we considered age-adjusted mortality rates and infant mortality rates.”
The report cites these factors in Alabama:
10. Alabama
> Pct. residents black: 26.8% (6th highest)
> Black home-ownership rate: 49.7% (5th highest)
> Black incarceration rate: 1,417 per 100,000 (25th lowest)
> Black unemployment rate: 10.6% (12th highest)
“More than one-quarter of Alabama residents are black, the sixth largest share of all states and more than double the national proportion. Many states with higher proportions of black residents are Southern states, but do not necessarily have larger racial disparities than others.”
