The Facts

African Americans

The minority dropout rate for Chicago Public Schools is fifty percent.

The average life expectancy of a black man in America is 59

A black male is 7 times more likely to be murdered than a white male.

A black female is 23 times more likely to contract AIDS than a white female.

AIDS is the leading cause of death for black women 24-35.

Seventy percent of black children live in a single parent household.

One out of Five black males is in prison or on parole.

Fourty percent of black adults are employed

Ninety percent of blacks in public housing projects are unemployed

One in Three black children live below the poverty line

African American suicide rates have risen 146% since 1980

More teenagers die in the United States of suicide than AIDS, enfluenza, stroke and heart
attack, cancer and pneumonia combined.

Hispanic

Puerto Ricans are the second poorest ethnic group in the United States, behind Native Americans.

The Hispanic population of the United States will double before 2020.

18 out of the nation's 25 largest cities have more Latinos than African Americans.

Tijuana Mexico is North America's second fastest growing city. Fourty percent of the people in TJ do not have running water.

Every year Mexico produces one million more workers than its economy can employ.

The adjusted wages for Mexicans depreciated twenty percent in the 1990s

El Salvador has a murder rate of 140/100,000

Latinos are 28% of the nation's labor force, but account for only 19% of aggregate wages.

Between 1980 and 1995 white household income grew by an average of $4,845, blacks by $4,576. Latino growth was $269.

In 1989 Chicano men made 81% of what white men made. In 1990 Chicano men made 61% of what white men made.

Between 1946-1964 4 out of 10 Puerto Ricans moved to the Eastern United States.

Seventy percent of Puerto Ricans below the age of 25 living in Puerto Rico are living in poverty.

NYC Puerto Rican high school drop out rate is 62%

The City of Chicago
Cook County has more than 11,000 inmates, seventy five percent of whom are black.

The average resident of Chicago Public Housing makes one half the national poverty rate income.

New York City has the nations largest public housing projects, Puerto Rico is 2nd, Chicago is 3rd.

Chicago have over 800,000 Latinos