Major study shows that despite efforts to reduce differences in care, the problem is worsening

U.S. Census Bureau: Minority groups and women are increasing their business ownership at a much higher rate than the national average, according to new tabulations titled "Preliminary Estimates of Business Ownership by Gender, Hispanic or Latino Origin, and Race: 2002," from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2002 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) released today.

• While the number of U.S. businesses increased by 10 percent between 1997 and 2002 to 23 million, the rate of growth for minority- and women-owned businesses was far higher,
  • ranging from 67 percent for native Hawaiian- and other Pacific islander-owned businesses to
  • 20 percent for firms owned by women. 

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The Dallas Morning News spent several months examining the dynamics of affluent black households in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan region. The News analyzed U.S. census data from 1990 to 2000, comparing the growth in upper-income black households locally and nationally. Reporters interviewed families, demographers, economists and educators, as well as civic, business and religious leaders about the status of black residents in the region.

• Black wealth blossoms in suburbs: D-FW ranks among top U.S. areas for well-off professionals
• The number of black households in the metro area that earn at least $100,000 tripled during the 1990s, propelling Dallas-Fort Worth into the ranks of the nation's leading metropolitan areas for upper-income black professionals, according to a Dallas Morning News analysis.
• Among 28 metropolitan areas with at least 1 million people, and in which at least 10 percent of households are black, the Dallas-Fort Worth area has the sixth-highest percentage of black households making at least $100,000. That places the D-FW area behind established centers of black affluence such as Atlanta and Washington, D.C., and ahead of Indianapolis, Houston and Philadelphia.
• Upper-income black households in Dallas grew 84 percent from the 1990 to 2000 census, but the city's growth trailed both the state and the D-FW region as a whole.
• In more than 20 D-FW-area cities with at least 200 black households, median black household income exceeds the median income for black households nationwide.