While MLK's "dream" is not quite a reality, it is definitely getting closer and closer. Many jobs are still split up by race and ethnicities, with blacks and hispanics for the most part holding less desirable jobs, and asian people and white people having the better ones. One example is blacks make up 30.4% of Postal Service Clerks, while asians make up 24.2% of Computer Software Engineers.
One of the less reassuring statistics is the unemployment rate. The rate for whites is 4.8%, while the same rate for blacks is 10.4%, and 7% for hispanics. This is an obvious way to tell whether all of the social equalities have worked themselves out, but when nearly three times as many blacks (compared to the total) are out of work than whites, you know something is wrong.
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