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down and eat anywhere in my
hometown, but not a single building is owned by an African American.” And there are only a small
handful of blacks who are CEOs of
Fortune 500 companies.
Health care numbers are equally bleak. Infant mortality, a basic
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measure of community health, is
1.14 percent among black Americans, more than double the 0.51
percent among whites. The relative rates of health insurance
and pension coverage for blacks
haven’t budged since 1979, according to Census figures and the
most recent “State of Working
America” study. For example, 48.2
percent of whites had health care
Detroit’s
emergency
manager
Kevyn Orr
filed for
Chapter 9
bankruptcy
on July 19,
2013, making
Detroit the
largest city
to file for
bankruptcy in
U.S. history.