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August 19, 2021 Thursday Edition
Volume 52 No. 18 Mailing: P.O. Box 837, Victorville, CA 92393
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them and these will continue till they have resisted either with words or blows or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance those of whom they suppress. —Fredrick Douglass (1849)
AARP Report Puts Spotlight on ‘Consumer Fraud in America: The Black Experience’
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Compared to White and other racial groups or Latino adults, Black adults reported higher awareness of fake job postings, Covid19 stimulus payment, work-from-home, tax preparation, and Black Lives Matter scams. By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Black adults most often encounter the government imposter, lottery, and work-fromhome scams, according to a new AARP report: “Consumer Fraud in America: The Black Experience.” The report authors wrote that for both fake job postings and romance scams, Black adults far outrank White and other racial groups but are on par with Latino adults. Black and White – and other racial groups – adults ran k being targeted by immigration scams the lowest. Further, Black adults under age 30 are most likely to report being targeted by a scam as nearly 1 in 5 between the ages of 18 and 29 report being targeted by a government impostor or mortgage scam. T h e r e p o r t r e ve a l e d that the rank of awareness of scams differs by race. Compared to White and other racial groups or Latino adults, Black adults reported higher awareness of fake job postings, Covid-19 stimulus payment, work-from-home, tax preparation, and Black Lives Matter scams. They also repor ted lower awareness of utility, grandparent, immigration, and business coaching scams. Incidence of scam awareness also varied significantly by
Exposure to scams – being targeted and, or a victim – among Black adults was on par with other racial groups, with about one-quarter reporting being a target of two or more scams,” noted AARP researchers. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA) racial groups in the report. Black adults reported lower awareness of utility, grandparent, and immigration scams than one or both of the other racial groups. A A R P com m issioned Precision Market Research, Latino Decisions, and the African American Research Collaborative to conduct the study, where 2,808 American adults participated. The study focused on
Black and Latino adults. The researchers concluded that education is critical in helping consumers spot and avoid scams. However, the survey indicated that Educational efforts about scams and fraud might underserve black adults compared with White and other racial groups. According to the report, Black older adults, less affluent, and female, are less aware of
scams, putting them at higher risk of experiencing a scam. Black adults who are men attained a bachelor’s degree and reported annual incomes of $100,000 or more indicate a greater incidence of losing money to a scam, the report continued. Compared with White and other racial groups, Black adults are less likely to have robocall protection or have posted their
U.S. Grows ever-More Diverse - Census Data Show A Multi-Racial, Urban And Older U.S. By Mark Hedin, ETHNIC MEDIA SERVICES
The United States population is more diverse than ever and increasingly urban, according to new data collected in the 2020 Census. But overall population growth in the country has slowed, newly released Census Bureau data show. The Census Bureau released on Aug. 12 the first trove of
narrowly focused information gathered in the 2020 Census. It will immediately be put to use in the redistricting process whereby states and local political jurisdictions re-draw political boundaries to create districts of equal populations for upcoming elections. The information will also
be used in countless other ways over the next decade, for instance, to decide where new schools or hospitals are needed, or roads, or where it might profit a business to set up shop. “The U.S. population is much more multiracial and more racially and ethnically diverse than what we measured in the past,” said Nicholas Jones, Census Bureau director and senior advisor of race and ethnic research and outreach. Of the 331,449,281 people enumerated in the 10-question census form last year, 204.3 million identified themselves or other household members as white. There were another 31.1 million identified as mixedrace — white and something else – and 2.7 million described as mixed race in a combination
that did not include white. The 204.3 million ‘white alone’ population is 8.6% less than it was the last time everyone was counted, in 2010. The census questionnaire data on ethnicity parsed the population into the following racial categories: White, Asian, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and Some Other Race. There was a separate question asking if the responding household members were Hispanic or Latino. Once those questions were answered, respondents could further describe themselves by tribe or other origins within those six initial categories. Being Hispanic or Latino is a continued on page 3
phone numbers to the National Do Not Call Registry; these protections are designed to reduce fraud susceptibility. In addition to the direct economic consequences associated with scams, the survey identifies physical and emotional health consequences that Black adults suffer after a scam experience. “Exposure to scams – being targeted and, or a victim – among
Black adults was on par with other racial groups, with about one-quarter reporting being a target of two or more scams,” the AARP researchers wrote. “A similar trend exists among those who report being a victim of a scam, which represents about 1 in 5 adults within each racial group.” The organization reported a troubling trend across all racial groups: more than half of those victimized were victims more than once. “The proliferation of financial fraud in the form of scams is undeniable,” AARP officials wrote on the organization’s website. “Federal data show the highest ever year-over-year rise in fraud reports between 2019 and 2020, and we know that scams are severely under-reported. “We also know that when consumers are aware of specific scams, they are far less likely to engage with them, and far less likely still to lose money or sensitive information.” View the full report here.: https://www.aarp.org/content/ dam/aarp/research/surveys_ statistics/econ/2021/consumerf r a u d - b l a c k- e x p e r i e n c e . doi.10.26419-2Fres.00456.001.pdf
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