Dave Stovall comments in latest edition of Crain’s Chicago Business ‘Crain’s Forum’ on the Impact of Inequality
"The city's population loss in minority neighborhoods on the South and West sides is unyielding. Experts point to various causes: gun violence, underfunded and shuttered schools and health facilities, rising property taxes, lack of jobs and resources, predatory lending, entrenched segregation—or, most likely, a combination of these factors. But one underlying narrative has been true since the 1980s, when Chicago first began to experience an outflow of blacks: Disparities between minorities and whites started widening, particularly in wages and wealth. And that inequality continues growing."
Modified on June 17, 2020