{"id":50520,"date":"2020-06-04T11:13:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T10:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=50520"},"modified":"2020-06-04T11:13:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T10:13:18","slug":"black-voters-in-the-us-have-taken-a-bigger-hit-than-white-voters-as-a-result-of-coronavirus-why-should-anyone-be-surprised-that-theres-anger-about-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/06\/04\/black-voters-in-the-us-have-taken-a-bigger-hit-than-white-voters-as-a-result-of-coronavirus-why-should-anyone-be-surprised-that-theres-anger-about-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Black voters in the US have taken a bigger hit than white voters as a result of coronavirus. Why should anyone be surprised that there&#8217;s anger about that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/e22636d7-8259-4b97-bcf8-19349cee61fd?emailId=5ed8c4a3fba3fa000469eb0c&amp;segmentId=ce31c7f5-c2de-09db-abdc-f2fd624da608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FT has just reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Far more African-American than white voters have suffered a reduction in their family\u2019s income due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to a poll for the Financial Times that underscores the racial disparities of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The survey showed 74 per cent of black voters reported a financial hit compared to 58 per cent of white voters. It also found that more African-Americans had lost their job since the outbreak began, highlighting the growing economic inequalities at a time when Americans are protesting against the death of George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>The monthly survey of likely voters for the FT and the Peter G Peterson Foundation found 25 per cent of black respondents had been dismissed or furloughed since the start of the recent lockdowns, compared to 19 per cent of white respondents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And you wonder why there is uprising in the USA right now?<\/p>\n<p>Black lives matter.<\/p>\n<p>That covers all aspect of life.<\/p>\n<p>And there is gross injustice going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT has just reported: Far more African-American than white voters have suffered a reduction in their family\u2019s income due to the coronavirus outbreak, according<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/06\/04\/black-voters-in-the-us-have-taken-a-bigger-hit-than-white-voters-as-a-result-of-coronavirus-why-should-anyone-be-surprised-that-theres-anger-about-that\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,35,147,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-economics","category-inequality","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}