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From the Data, Educational Disparities Emerge
The analyses showed stark racial and ethnic disparities in student retentions, but states continue to plow forward with the policies, doing almost no analyses on their own. The racial gaps surprised even experts.
Tags: racial gaps; education
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Race Gap Found in Pothole Patching
The Milwaukee Department of Public Works was found to have clear geographical and racial disparities in how it allocated city workers to fix potholes throughout the area. A database of pothole locations with repair times were mapped out by the reporters and U.S. Census data was used to assess the poor response times.
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The High Price of Home Ownership
"In 2007, the housing market was in turmoil. People were losing their homes. Many blamed the homeowners." The authors wanted to see "what role lenders played nto putting unsuspecting homeowners into precarious loans that they could not afford." They found that "not only were lender partially to blame, but there were wide disparities in the race" of who was most affected.
Tags: homeownership; lenders; corruption; racial gap; race; loans; foreclosure; home mortage
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Gaps tarnish data on profiling
The Houston Chronicle computer analysis "shows that after nearly 20 months, the data collected by the state's largest police force may be seriously flawed. " Houston police are supposed to record all stops they make into a racial profiling database, but it was found that thousands of stops weren't entered and and other records were filled out incompletely or incorrectly.
Tags: racial profiling; racial profiling database; Houston police; traffic stops; racial discrimination
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Profiling of Prevention: Taking the measure of Quality of Life policing
This Milwaukee Journal Sentinel series "uncovered serious questions of fairness and effectiveness dogging the Milwaukee Police Department's controversial "zero-tolerance" strategy." The investigation found that "police issued a half-million municipal tickets and collected $ 10 million in new fines, but with disappointing results overall." A major part of the series focused on the racial gap. Through a computer analysis of the municipal court database the reporters found that "minorities in poor central city neighborhoods received 70% of the tickets." The series revealed that "even offenses such as speeding and jaywalking were enforced mainly against minorities" and that "people living in homeless shelters received thousands of tickets while on the street." The investigation also found that "as many as "800 people were wrongly fined, subject to driver's license suspension or even jailed in cases of mistaken identity in just one year."
Tags: race; minorities; poor; homeless; crime; courts; speeding; jaywalking; database mapping project
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Worlds Apart: The Racial Education Gap
This series examines the reasons behind the finding that black students trail their classmates -- regardless of family income or education -- in test scores.
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A Deadly Difference: America's Racial Health Divide
A Cleveland Plain Dealer investigation of the racial gap in the health of American men and women revealed that "black Americans die at higher rates than whites in virtually every county in the United States where there's a sizable minority population." Among the Dealer's findings in the county-by-county investigation was that the "death rates among blacks for certain treatable diseases are where they were for whites 20 years ago." The five-part series looks at individual cities in the United States as well as offers some solutions to the national trend.
Tags: race; blacks; whites; death; health; health care; CAR; Database Mapping Project
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Behind the figures: Federal data detail pervasive racial gap in mortgage lending
Wall Street Journal reports that race is a factor in whether banks accept a person's mortgage application, finding blacks are twice as likely to have their application turned down than are whites.
Tags: mortgage lending; banks; discrimination; racial disparities
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Philadelphia Inquirer examines the nation's public and private health insurance network, finding serious gaps, such as the Reagan administration's "catastrophic health proposal," which would leave millions of elderly impoverished in nursing homes; also finds economic and racial discrimination against the elderly poor in Philadelphia nursing homes, 1987.