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Group: Effort to Balance Budgets Often Hurts Minorities, Newsday, 3/20/09

Group: Effort to Balance Budgets Often Hurts Minorities, Newsday, 3/20/09

Did you know that on Long Island...

Blacks prefer racially integrated communities (p.6)

Blacks live in segregated communities regardless of their income (p.14)

Blacks report pervasive housing discrimination (p.9)

Blacks report an increase in the Latino population in their communities, most of which are already majority minority neighborhoods (p.10)

In rating neighborhood characteristics, blacks value living close to family and friends much less than they value other factors (p.12)

The neighborhood characteristics that blacks most value are lacking where they live (p.11)

Blacks value quality schools, but give the schools in their community a poor rating (p.12)

Blacks report a higher likelihood of leaving the region (p.15)

Click on the statistics to see details in corresponding report.

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