I am posting this under Workplace because I was not sure where else to put it and work is one of the dimensions that the authors talk about in the following article. If you ever even contemplated the possibility that we live in a post-racial society, an idea, which, I suppose, began we when elected President Obama, then the graphics in this article will show just how far we are from being post-racial. I am aware of these sorts of stats and how people of color in the US have so much less access to important societal scare resources, but to see the stats displayed in this form stunned, even me. Golash-Boza points out the difference between the jobless rate and the unemployment rate. The jobless rate is a more accurate reflection of the racialized labor market. Jobless rates are higher for the Latino population and the Black population. The statistics for Native Americans are harder to come by and they are not reported as systematically as statistics for whites, Blacks, Latinos and Asians. We do know that joblessness is high among many Native American nations and poverty rates are "off the charts." Statistics for the Asian American population, if aggregated, suggest that this sub-population mirrors the white population; however, when we focus on specific sub-groups within Asia America, there is significant variation. The recent economic crisis hit people of color quite hard and exacerbated the other dimensions mentioned in this article. One solution certainly is massive jobs creation like we have never seen before and it has to have a spatial component to it so that it overcomes spatial-mismatch and we must completely revamp our educational system so that we can overcome skills-mismatch as well.

Reeves, Richard, Edward Rodrigue and Elizabeth Kneebone. (April 2016). Five Dimensional Poverty and Race in America. Brookings Research. Retrieved from http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/2016/five-evils-multidimensional-poverty-race