Illinois’ progressive and equity-focused policies – among the nation’s most extreme – have inflicted harm on the state’s minorities, particularly its black residents. Far from reducing racial gaps, a devotion to DEI policies has seemingly only amplified them.
Racial employment data from the Economic Policy Institute, and U.S Census revealed the following:
Chicago, highest unemployment rate for blacks in big cities.
Illinois’ black unemployment rate, nation’s 2nd-highest, at 10.5 percent, in Q1 2023.
Illinois, nation’s biggest gap between its black and white unemployment rates: 7.2 percentage points.
The gap between Illinois’ black unemployment rate and the national average for blacks in 2022 was the worst in at least 20 years: a difference of 4.8 percentage points.
Gov. Pritzker has boasted more than once that Illinois is the nation’s “most progressive state and proud of it,” as if the policies enacted by him and his fellow Democrats over the past years and decades – from affirmative action in hiring, to race-based social spending to guaranteed income programs and much more – are proof that Illinois is living up to the ideals of “equity” between whites and blacks.
The actual results on jobs, poverty and income show exactly the opposite. More handouts, programs and spending at the expense of real jobs and natural investment has only exacerbated racial gaps in Illinois.
To learn more, read Wirepoints’ in-depth analysis:
* ‘Equity’ Fail: Illinois blacks suffer nation’s 2nd-highest unemployment rate, largest black-white gap
* Equity fail (part 2): Illinois’ destructive policies leave black residents behind
* Chicago’s progressive agenda has been destructive for black communities
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