Compared to white people:
*Black-owned homes devalued 23%
*Black-owned property taxes 13% higher
*Bank fees 2x higher for black customers
*Black-owned biz closed at twice the rate in pandemic
*Black people w/ NO criminal record earn $10k less than white people w/ criminal record

Sources on all that
1. Homes devalued https://t.co/PChbtDLtDF
2. Property taxes https://t.co/N6ELUlaZsR
3. Bank fees https://t.co/SzLqWQ7IG3
4. Small business closures https://t.co/8OWj0G2f9Z
5. Pay/criminal record comparison https://t.co/ylNevfw5X5
*Black college grads have 50% less wealth than white high school dropouts
*Top 10 most-audited counties are 79% people of color
*Black-white homeowner gap is bigger now than 120 years ago
*Electoral college gives white people 16% more voting power than Black people
Sources on that:
1. College/high school dropout wealth gap: https://t.co/jSPDQhOFSm

2. Most audited counties: https://t.co/IhEliUPPSD

3. Homeownership gap https://t.co/cJl9G2Roan

4. Electoral college https://t.co/Q6gEUSukeL
*All Black Americans combined have half the wealth of richest 400 ppl
*White ppl get inheritance at 3x the rate of Black ppl
*Black college grads have $25k more in student debt than white grads
*Black families have $166k less wealth than white families, more than pre-Civil Rights
Sources on that
*Black wealth total: https://t.co/GnwghylXkK
*Inheritance https://t.co/ObvkO7kMgl
*Student loan debt: https://t.co/BJ1yMEdMny
*Wealth gap: https://t.co/5HZeFYGnwX
*Black-owned businesses get 3% of all biz loans
*Black unemployed workers get unemployment benefits at half the rate of white workers
*Black people own 1% of all stocks
*Net worth of older Millennials with a college degree: 10x higher for white grads than Black grads
Sources on that
*Black-owned business loans https://t.co/hO7joogBhn
*Unemployment benefits gap https://t.co/SOPMnjivU7
*Black-owned stocks https://t.co/KE36wpLQMe
*Millennial college grad net worth comparison https://t.co/DRWetZqXCC
*Since the Civil War/slavery ended, Black families have gone from holding 0.5% of all wealth to 1.5%
*Black ppl are 4x more likely than white ppl to be arrested for marijuana
*Where it's legal, black people own 4% of cannabis businesses
*0% of Fortune 500 CEOs are black women
Sources on that
*Marijuana arrests https://t.co/HuHLJoht1B
*Cannabis business owners https://t.co/zt6lo84eb7
*Fortune 500 CEOs https://t.co/S2imjD5y9h
*Black wealth "growth" https://t.co/Lm0mzZ2CR3
*Scooter startup Bird got more funding than all Black women startups combined last year
*Black sons of ppl in the richest 1% are arrested at same rate as white sons of ppl in poorest third
*20 years after college, white students have 5% of loan left vs 95% left for Black students
Sources on that
*Startup funding https://t.co/gOIPnRwKrn
*Arrest rates by parents' wealth https://t.co/8cEoiZAkTO
*Student loan payoff rate
https://t.co/113WD3pnxy
*Black students are 2.5x likelier than white students to be arrested at school after controlling for poverty
*1950: black men made 51 cents for every $1 white men made. Now: 51 cents
*Corporate stock buybacks/dividends in last 15 years benefited white ppl 72x more than Black ppl
Sources on that
*Student arrest rates https://t.co/u7W364HARS
*Stock buyback/dividend gap https://t.co/jwSz9muMqT
*Male income gap unchanged in 70 years: https://t.co/mIr7gCR0ej
*Americans think Black people have 90% of the wealth white people do. It's actually 10%
*Black homeowners are still 5x more likely to be in old redlined areas, 50 years after redlining was outlawed
*Facial recognition is 100x more likely to misidentify black faces than white ones
Sources on that
*Wealth gap perception vs reality https://t.co/iiqrujg001
*Redlining still exists today https://t.co/5xTGBhfgOq
*Facial recognition bias https://t.co/VAcMLjpjSV
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I've heard a lot of scientists claim these three - including most recently the chief advisor to the CDC, where the claim that most transmission doesn't happen within the walls of schools. There is strong evidence to rebut this claim. Let's look at


Let's look at the trends of infection in different age groups in England first- as reported by the ONS. Being a random survey of infection in the community, this doesn't suffer from the biases of symptom-based testing, particularly important in children who are often asymptomatic

A few things to note:
1. The infection rates among primary & secondary school children closely follow school openings, closures & levels of attendance. E.g. We see a dip in infections following Oct half-term, followed by a rise after school reopening.


We see steep drops in both primary & secondary school groups after end of term (18th December), but these drops plateau out in primary school children, where attendance has been >20% after re-opening in January (by contrast with 2ndary schools where this is ~5%).

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