"Nobody in Dubuque should look at that report and say, 'Oh, this is OK.' No, it is completely unacceptable."
That's the assessment of Alex Baum, director of advocacy, data, and learning for the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque, which recently released a Community Equity Profile that analyzed racial inequities in Dubuque, Iowa.
The profile found that, as a whole, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois rank 48th in racial equality when it comes to employment and wealth, with Washington, DC, the only US city that didn't crack the top 50, coming in at 49th, per the Des Moines Register.
The profile also found that, according to the 2020 US Census, 25.7% of Dubuque's black residents own their homes, while 9% of the city's white residents, 30% of its Asian residents, and 26% of its Hispanic residents own their homes.
The Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque's Community Equity Profile also found that 27.8% of Black Dubuquers earn less than 50% of the federal poverty level, while 4.7% of White Dubuquers are considered to be living in "deep poverty."
"We have been viewing a lot of these metrics for some time," says Anderson Sainci, director of the City of Dubuque Office of
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