The Wall St. Index defined Hawaii as the best state for Black Americans to live in.
The 24/7 Wall St. has created an index using data from the U.S. Census Bureau to make a measure of socioeconomic disparities between Black and white Americans. They’ve identified the worst U.S. states for Black Americans to live in.
The seventh measure in the index, however, focuses on prisoners of state and federal facilities adjusted by race, and the eighth is an age-adjusted mortality rate by race. For each measure of the index, “we constructed an index from the gaps between Black and white Americans.”
deeply embedded racial disparities in access and services. In addition to racial zoning and redlining, Black residents in these states are more likely to be incarcerated in comparison to their white counterparts and have extremely high unemployment rates for Black Americans.
Of all the U.S. states, 24/7 Wall St. found Hawaii has the smallest disparity in the eight key socioeconomic indicators identified between residents. Hawaii is also the only state in which the Black poverty rate is below the white rate.
Labor unions in Texas have unequal membership between workers and the homeownership rate is highly unequal within the state between white and Black families.
The top three worst states for Black Americans are Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. These states are highly segregated with
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Source: Black Enterprise
