Dream+Report+Card


 * Has Martin Luther King Jr.'s "dream" been realized?**


 * **TOPIC** ||  || ==**GRADE**== || **RATIONALE WITH STATISTICS** ||   || **COMMENTS / SUGGESTIONS** ||

Civil Rights laws, affirmative action laws, representation in state and federal government, voting statistics ||  || =**B**= || * Civil Rights laws have been passed and enforced by the government Number of employed / unemployed, types of jobs, business ownership ||  || B- || * Percent of people working is generally the percent of people in their race
 * **Legislation and Politics**
 * While the number of African Americans and Hispanics in the government is not near the percentage of population, the numbers are increasing every year
 * We have an African American president
 * African Americans vote at nearly the same rate as the average population, but Hispanics are much lower (average around 60% registering, African American 58%, Hispanic 28%) || * Encourage minorities to continue to become active in politics, possibly through schools
 * Push for voter registration drives and voter eductaion in the Hispanic community, possibly with bilingual voting ballots ||
 * **Employment**
 * The percent of hispanics in the work force are lower than the percent of hispanics total
 * only 1% of asians are working
 * 10% of the black population is unemployed
 * 7% of the hispanic population is unemployed
 * Hispanic weekly earnings are much less than other races || * more bilingual schools
 * More jobs for all races
 * Push for more employed people especially in the hispanic population
 * Push for better jobs and earnings for all races ||  ||   ||

Graduation rates, test scores, college enrollment, educational attainment ||  || B- || * Whites, blacks, and Asians have about the same high school graduation rates, but Hispanics have lower graduation rates
 * **Education**
 * Whites have a graduation rate from high school of 85.8%; African Americans have a graduation rate of 80.6%; Asians have a graduation rate of 86.8%; alarmingly, Hispanics have a graduation of 58.4%
 * Though, more Asians graduate from college than any other race. Asian Americans graduate 49.4%; whites graduate 28.2%; blacks graduate 17.6%, and the Hispanic population has the least amount of graduates with 12.1% ||  ||   || * Encourage students (mostly Hispanics) not to quit school and meet their requirements
 * Maybe more scholarship programs so that more people could afford to go to school
 * Bilingual schools ||

Average income, number below poverty level ||  || B ||  || * The income of blacks and hispanics are less than other races
 * **Income and Poverty**
 * over a thousand blacks have an income of under 10,000
 * Asian income is fairly high
 * The poverty level for races other than whites are higher than whites ||
 * || * Push for better incomes for minorities
 * Help more minority populated cities with poverty||  ||
 * **Behavior** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||