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...Compared with metropolitan Chicago as a whole, the city's black poverty areas have ten times as much unemployment (10%), seven times as many welfare cases, four times as many one-parent families and half as much median family income ($4.800). Though Chicago has 80 hospitals, most blacks are sent to the old Cook County Hospital, where they wait an average two hours to be seen, pay $100 a day for beds or are crowded into the hospital's 50-year-old ward. In black ghettos, the infant mortality rate from influenza and pneumonia...
...economic gap between white and black is still tremendous, but it is narrowing. Negro median family income rose from 54% as much as white income in 1965 to 60% in 1968. The difference is less dramatic if the South, where half the blacks still live, is excluded. In the North Central and Western states, black family income runs 75% to 80% as high as white income...
...blacks' wages tend to run much lower than whites'. The Negro who completes four years of high school earns less than the white who finishes only eight years of elementary school. The black with four years of college has a median income of $7,754-or less than the $8,154 earned by the white who has only four years of high school. "Underemployment"-work in seasonal or part-time jobs-is more common than for whites. Result: a black family often has to have two or more workers to earn as much as a white family with...
...Median Family Income...
...located in one of the most chronically-depressed regions of the country. Sunflower County, like the rest of the Mississippi Delta, has a heavily-black population, but the black families there live on a median annual income...