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U.S. CENSUS Report Finds Rates of Uninsured Remain High Amongst Poverty Stricken
Median household income was $63,179 before the most recent recession. The “Each honoree chosen in 2018, not statistically different for from the number of people in poverty in 2018 was 2017 median, following consecutive recognition hasthree demonstrated 38.1 million, 1.4 million fewer people than years ofexceptional annual increases. Between 2017 leadership and vision in2017. and 2018, realrespective median earnings of all or David Dinkins her the or his profession workers increased 3.4% to $40,247. The The percentage of people with health endeavor and in some significant insurance coverage for all or part of 2018 2018 real median earnings of men and was a member of the New York hasfull-time, contributed towards was 91.5%, lower than the rate in 2017 womenmeasure who worked year-round City Council, representing the creating a and more justrespectively, society in this (92.1%). Between increased by 3.4% 3.3%, 2017 and 2018, the 40th council district in Brooklyn, country,” Black Star News percentage of people with public coverage between 2017 andsays 2018. The difference succeeding her mother, Una S. between the 2017-2018 percent changes founder and publisher Milton decreased 0.4 percentage points, and th T. Clarke. In thewith current 114 in median earnings for men and women the percentage of people private Allimadi. “Obviously much work Congress Clarke serves on workingneeds full-time, year round was not coverage did not statistically change. to be done here and statistically significant. The number of These findings are contained in two the Energy and Commerce around the world.” full-time, year-round workers increased Committee, responsible for
The gala starts at 6:00pm with a cocktail hour to be followed by the FOUNDER dinner and awards ceremonies. There will be musical entertainment by opera singer Cassandra Douglas and from harmonica phenomenon David Dinkins is NeWilliam w Yo r k Galison. T r e n d N YC , the award honored for Lifetime Achievement winning and nationally recognized — he was New York City’s first publication, is celebrating its African American mayor and 30th anniversary this year and willalso Nelsonthe Mandela bewelcomed commemorating occasion to the city after his release in 1990. throughout 2019.
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York and a former chancellor of the New York public schools system.
The Black Stars News 2015 Annual Awards Dinner will honor Mayor David Dinkins, Rep. Charles The U.S. Census Bureau announced by 2.3 million, between 2017 and 2018. Rangel, Yvette Clarke, today the medianRep. household income The number of men and women full-time, Donahue Peebles, was notR.statistically different fromBarbara the year-round workers increased by about Arnwine, Inez Barron, Sabrina 700,000 and 1.6 million, respectively. 2017 median, and the official poverty rate decreased 0.5 Rudy percentage points Lamb, Dr. Crew, Stephen The official poverty rate in 2018 was from 2017. At the time,and the the rate Central11.8%, a decrease of 0.5 percentage Byrd, Aliasame Jones, and number people withoutof health points from 2017. This is the fourth Park of Five survivors gross injustice insurance increased from 7.9%, or 25.6 annual decline in the national on December 18 from 6:00pm – consecutive million, in 2017 to 8.5%, or 27.5 million, poverty rate. In 2018, for the first time 10:00pm at MIST Harlem, 46 West in 2018. in 11 years, the official poverty rate was 116th Street. significantly lower than 2007, the year
Pioneering producers Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones, through their company Front Row Production, brought “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “A Streetcar Named Desire” with a multi-ethnic cast to Broadway. In 2016 they bring “Eclipsed” with Oscar Winner Lupita Nyong ’O to Broadway.
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majority. She now leads The Transformative Justice Coalition. Arnwine was for 26 years executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law.
consumer protection, food safety, energy development, public health, communications, the environment, and interstate and international commerce.
Inez Barron, honoree, formerly a State Assembly member, is now a New York City council member and a champion of education for our youth.
Honorees, the so-called Central Park 5, are collectively and individually heroes. They are survivors of one of the ugliest miscarriage of justice in New York’s history; having been railroaded and unjustly convicted for a crime they did not commit and for which they served long prison sentences ranging from seven years to 13 years before being exonerated when the actual rapist confessed. They are: Yusef Abdus Salaam; Raymond Santana Jr., Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, and Kharey Wise.
The Black Star News, which focuses Honoree Imhotep Gary Byrd is on investigative journalism, has a legendary radio talk show host been featured as a result of some if and executive producer, radio DJ, its news scoops, on CNN, The New reports: Income and Povertymusic in the United poet, songwriter, recordingconducted every month and is the primary York Daily News, The New York a leading developer and founder ofStates: artist 2018 and Health Insurance and producer, rapper, writersource of labor force statistics for the Post, The Voice, and The Peebles Co., the nation’s largest it isVillage used to calculate the Brill’s Coverage in the United States: 2018.He beganU.S. population; and community activist. Content magazine. monthly unemployment rate estimates. Another Census Bureau report, The African American-owned real his career as a radio DJ in BuffaloSupplements are added in most months; Poverty Measure: estate firm with $3.5 billion worthSupplemental PastSocial Blackand Star News honorees at age 15. For over years, he’s the Annual Economic also released today.30 The of properties under development 2018, was have included: Noble (Like It been apoverty talk show WBLS and Supplement is designed Gil to give annual, supplemental rate inhost 2018atwas or management — he was one 13.1%, WLIB Is), Rep. Maxine Waters, Soledad radio indifferent New York City. Henational estimates of income, poverty and not statistically from the “We are delighted and proud Rep. Charles Rangel, also honored of the pioneering developerswho 2017 supplemental O’Brien (CNN), Ms. Camille Cosby, numbers and rates. The povertynight rate ofradio 13.0%. also has a Friday talk health insurance tofor reach such a momentous Lifetime Achievement, has helped turn around and revitalize The Supplemental most recent Annual Social and Economic Poverty Measure Voza Rivers (New Heritage Theatre), show on WBAI. milestone this ever-changing served in in Congress since 1971. He is the once-blighted Anacostia Supplement was conducted nationwide (SPM) provides an alternative way of Errol Louis (NY1 News), Amel industry we call publishing”, Honoree Lamb, founder(February, March and April 2019) and a recipient of The Bronze medal for measuring poverty Sabrina in the United States neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Larrieux (Entertainer), Dr. William stated Dr. Teresa Taylor of World of Money, is a champion collected information about income and and serves as an additional indicator of helping save soldiers behind enemy A champion of African-American Williams, owner & publisher Pollard (Medgar Evers College), decades in accordance with The Census Bureau shehealth insurance coverage during the of well-being. financial literacy for youth-lineNew during Korean War. economic empowerment Peebles’ economic is of Yorkthe Trend NYC. She Herm Edwards (NY Jets), Nayaba the many changes in how our year. has published estimates usinghandling2018 calendar teachespoverty knowledge about contemplating a possible run for NYC added,Yvette “We have everyisintention Rep. Clarke a Democratic Arinde (Amsterdam News), La-Verna world shares and consumes news. the SPM annually since 2011and withplanning. the money, budgeting The Current Population Survey-based on continuing to US serve our of mayor 2017. member of the House Fountain (Columbia University), It is New York in Trend NYC’s and collaboration of the Bureau of Labor income and poverty report includes loyal community of from readers and Dr. Rudy Crew, honoree, is one of Statistics. Representatives New www.newyorktrendnyc.com’s Lillian Roberts (DC37), Desiree Honoree Barbara Arnwine, civil comparisons with the previous year, and Dancy followers.” promiserights to continue to adapt to the nation’s leading educators. He’s York whose 9th district covers (New York Times), Greg Floyd (Local lawyer, is a champion of historical tables in the report contain The Current Population Survey, Our beloved publication hasBefore our readers’ needs and industry much of central Brooklyn. statistics back to 1959. The health sponsored jointly by the Census 237), Rev. Al Sharpton (National president of Medgar Evers College protecting voting rights of ethnic evolved over the past decades to come! report is based onand both the others. Labor Statistics, is insurance entering Congress in three 2007, she methods for Action Network), many of The CityofUniversity of New minority groups — the emerging Bureau and Bureau
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