Racial segregation in the United States Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Costs=== In April 2017, the Metropolitan Planning Council in Chicago and the [[Urban Institute]], a think-tank located in Washington, DC, released a study estimating that racial and economic segregation is costing the United States billions of dollars every year. Statistics (1990β2010) from at least 100 urban hubs were analyzed.<ref>{{cite report |url=https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/89201/the_cost_of_segregation.pdf |title=The Cost of Segregation: National Trends and the Case of Chicago, 1990β2010 |date=March 2017 |publisher=[[Urban Institute]]}}</ref> This study reported that segregation affecting Blacks economically was associated with higher rates of homicide.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/study-racial-segregation-costing-country-n741306|title=Study: Racial segregation is costing the country billions|work=NBC News|access-date=May 29, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page