Facts/Statistics

-More than 20% of the Black working population over 16 years old are employees of the federal, state, or local government which is just over 5% higher than the national average

-54% of African Americans graduate from high school, compared to more than three quarters of white and Asian students.

-Only 45% of Black men graduate from high school in the United States.

-69% of Black children in America cannot read at grade level in the 4th grade, compared with 29%
among White children.

-White males with a high-school diploma are just as likely to have a job and tend to earn just as
much as Black males with college degrees

-53% of Black men aged 25-34 are either unemployed or earn too little to lift a family of four from
poverty