Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, May 17, 2017.
UIC report: In some categories, racial inequality in Chicago has gotten worse since the civil rights movement
Racial inequality in Chicago has gotten worse since the civil rights movement in some respects, but there’s been progress in other areas, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In a report called “A Tale of Three Cities: The State of Racial Justice in Chicago,” the researchers examined inequality between blacks, Latinos, and whites in categories including employment, economics, housing, and education. Among other things, they found that white families earn 2.2 times more on average than black families today, compared to 1.6 times more in 1960. “The central finding of this report is that racial and ethnic inequities in Chicago remain pervasive, persistent and consequential,” the authors of the report wrote. “These inequities affect the lives of Chicagoans in every neighborhood.” [DNAinfo Chicago]
