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*In Chicago, only 30% of Black males graduate from high school, of these only 3% of them obtain a bachelors degree by the time theyre 25.
*Schott Foundation for Public Education/National Student Clearinghouse/Study by Consortium on Chicago School Research at U of Chicago
*1.46 million Black men out of a total voting population of 10.4 million have lost their right to vote due to felony convictions.
Source: Thomas, P., Study Suggests Black Male Prison Rate Impinges on Political Process, The Washington Post (January 30, 1997),p. A3.
*One in three Black men between the ages of 20 and 29 years old is under correctional supervision or control.
Source: Mauer, M. & Huling, T., Young Black Americans and the Criminal Justice System: Five Years Later (Washington DC: The Sentencing Project, 1995).
*Black college men end up just a few dollars ahead of Whites who went no further than high school.
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*The Black male homicide rate is seven times the White male rate.
*Black women are 18 times more likely to be raped than White women.
*The Justice Department estimates that one out of every 21 Black men can expect to be murdered, a death rate double that of U. S. soldiers in World War II.
A young Black male in America is more likely to die from gun fi re than was any soldier in Vietnam.
*Black men earn 67% of what white men earn.
*53% of Black men aged 25-34 are either unemployed or earn too little to lift a family of four from poverty.
*The share of young Black men without jobs has climbed relentlessly, with only a slight pause during the economic peak of the late 1990s. In 2000, 65% of Black male high-school dropouts in their 20s were jobless that is, unable to find work, not seeking it or incarcerated. By 2004, the share had grown to 72%, compared with 34% of White and 19 % of Hispanic dropouts. Even when high-school graduates were included, half of Black men in their 20s were jobless in 2004, up from 46% in 2000.
*Incarceration rates climbed in the 1990s and reached historic highs in the past few years. In 1995, 16% of Black men in their 20s who did not attend college were in jail or prison; by 2004, 21% were incarcerated. By their mid-30s, 6 in 10
More young Black men in the United States have done time than have served in the military or earned a college degree, according to a new study.
The paper, appearing in the American Sociological Review, estimates that 20% of all Black men born from 1965 through 1969 had served time in prison by the time they reached their early 30s. By comparison, less than 3% of White males born in the same time period had been in prison.
The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/20/national/20blackmen.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Plight Deepens for Black Men, Studies Warn., March 20, 2006
*Three states with the highest percentage of Black inmates greater than 63% are Maryland (77%), Louisiana (74%), and Mississippi (70%) followed by Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.
Report from National Urban League, 2006
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