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You know when you have watched too much TV news when you see the same news story appear on the TV on the same stations or another station time after time, day after day.

You know when your city is ignoring poverty and racism when study after study shows racial segregation and poverty on the increase in your city. Today on Public Radio I heard how US census data from 2009–2013 shows the Milwaukee Metro Area among Fastest Growing Areas of Concentrated Poverty. The report by the Century Foundation shows nearly “45% of African-Americans in the Milwaukee area live in high poverty neighborhoods, versus 39% in 2000. Milwaukee has the ninth highest concentration of black poverty in the United States. And it comes after a period when things had generally gotten better here, and around the country….

Even more dramatically, the report also found Metropolitan Milwaukee’s concentration of Hispanic poverty grew from 5.3% in 2000 to 43.2% in 2013, placing seventh nationwide in that category.”

This study, along with other analysis that show Milwaukee as the most racially segregated city in the USA and the second poorest city in USA in a State that has the highest incarceration rate of African American males, is recognized and then ignored. One of the authors of the study said on radio that a major contributor of this racial segregation of the poor is caused by the rapid development of housing in the suburbs and in downtown Milwaukee, and is not matched by any effort for housing for low income persons. Many suburbs have put in permit regulations so that a house must have 3000 square feet to build. So much for modest housing.

As last night’s posting and other postings written on this Diary of a Worm demonstrate, it is more and more difficult to be poor. Sadly many people of all races do not recognize that they are perpetuating racial segregation of poor people in Milwaukee. Until we realize how we are growing Milwaukee into a racially segregated city based on income it will continue to grow. Maybe we are moving backwards, toward slavery, as some of my Black friends in North Central Milwaukee claim.


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