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"The rent is too damn high," and more of us are being forced to pay it.

The economic condition of African-Americans in America’s 11th largest city stagnated last year, with Black unemployment reaching near crisis levels! That’s according to new data released by the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). Unemployment in the Indianapolis African-American community continued at crisis levels accruing the 2012 Census ACS. In 2011, Black unemployment in Indianapolis/Marion […]

Unemployment in Indianapolis’ African-American community declined last year while Black household incomes remained stagnant and the number of Blacks living in poverty increased. Those are some of the initial findings in the initial release of 2011 data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS).  The annual survey of demographic trends for the country’s population. […]

During the 2010 Census, many of you asked me how would you know the outcome. How would you know when the data was published? Would the data be available to anyone and everyone?  I promised that as Census data became available, I would share with you and he community the outcome and where to obtain […]