DIVERGING NUMBERS

88%

White employment rate, metropolitan Milwaukee (2012)

58%

Black employment rate

8%

White poverty rate, metropolitan Milwaukee (2012)

39%

Black poverty rate

1.6%

White residents living in extreme-poverty neighbourhoods (2010)

32.9%

Black residents living in extreme-poverty neighbourhoods

0.9%

White adult-male incarceration rate, Wisconsin (2010)

11.9%

Black adult-male incarceration rate

$62,100

Median white household income, metropolitan Milwaukee (2012)

$26,036

Median black household income

24.2%

Average poverty rate of a school attended by white Milwaukee students (2009-2010)

78.1%

Average poverty rate of a school attended by black Milwaukee students Source: American Civil Liberties Union, Marc Levine