Zoning codes, employment practices, development policies, voting laws, criminal justice policies: all of these have helped keep people of color impoverished.
Ed Doherty
Posted inNews & Opinion
People of color much worse off here, report says
African Americans and Latinx in the nine-county Greater Rochester area are more than three times as likely to be poor as whites are. The median household income for African Americans is less than half that of whites, and the statistic is only slightly better for Latinx. Whites are more than twice as likely to own […]
