The Numbers Game

Write down a guess about what each of these numbers

represents:

• 536 billion

• 50,000,000

• 57.6 billion

• 7,100,000,000

• 2.4 million

• 1

• 21

• 9,739

• 130,670

White Black Hispanic

Total People Living in Poverty

26,038,000 9,393,000 9,132,000

Total People in U.S. 238,000,000 38,028,000 41,698,000

Percent of People

Living in Poverty by

Race

10.9% 24.7% 21.9%

Total White Black

“The government response to Hurricane Katrina would have been faster if most of the victims were White”

Do you agree?

26% of people in the U.S said “Yes”

17% of White people

said “Yes”

66%

of Black

people said “Yes”

Total White Black

“Hurricane Katrina showed that racial inequality in the U.S. is still a major problem”

Do you agree?

38% of people in the U.S said “Yes”

32% of White people

said “Yes”

71%

of Black

people said “Yes”