Logan Stout

• Disabled males  in Maine are twice as likely to be arrested at school than non disabled males and disabled females are five times more likely to be arrested at school than non disabled females.

• The Black male population comprises approximately six percent of the United States population, of the 2,300,000 people incarcerated nationwide, 1 million are Black males.
• Black males receive ten percent longer Federal sentences than White males who commit the same crime.

• 80 percent of Latino students attend segregated schools and 43 percent attend intensely segregated schools — ones with only up to 10 percent of white students. 74 percent of black students attend segregated schools, and 38 percent attend intensely segregated schools.   

• White Americans use drugs more than black Americans, but black people are arrested for drug possession more than three times as often as whites.

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• Young white men with felony convictions are more likely to get called back after a job interview than young black men with similar qualifications and clean records.”

• 42% of people who are LGBT report living in an unwelcoming environment.

• 80% of gay and lesbian youth report severe social isolation.

• People who are transgender are not permitted to serve openly in the US Military.

• People can be legally fired or evicted in 29 states just for identifying within the LGBTQ spectrum.

• Gay, lesbian and bisexual kids are 4x more likely to attempt suicide than straight kids.

Sources-

• Princeton.edu”
• “Civilrightsproject.ucla.edu”
• “Hrw.org”
• “H.R.5930 – Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys Act”
• Ocrdata.ed”
• http://www.friendfactor.org/lgbt-fast-facts/