This analysis brief adds to the just mentioned literature because it considers how racial discrimination reduces Black America’s production, income, and consumption. We use as the representative share of Black America’s employment and consumption our percentage in the nation’s population based on Census Bureau statistics. The columns show: (A) VA amounts; (B) Black America’s the representative share; (C) Black America’s actual employment share; (D) the average Black American household-to-national household consumption ratio; and (E) the RDIS estimate. As a case in point, while not shown explicitly in Table 1, Black America’s consumption loss in Health is sizeable. However, the reality is that Black America’s health as signaled by life expectancy lags far behind non-Black American groups.

Source: New York Times June 15, 2024 22:30 UTC