Post by Logan on Apr 8, 2017 20:03:27 GMT -6
Missouri car insurance industry is super racist, report finds
Earlier this week, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer dismissed ProPublica as a “left-wing blog.” ProPublica is not a left-wing blog. It is an independent, nonprofit news organization responsible for some of the finest investigative reporting in America. Sean Spicer is a sad, doomed clown, and he got owned for trying to imply that ProPublica is down in the hyper-partisan gutter with the Addicting Infos and Breitbarts of the world.
Today, ProPublica and Consumer Reports co-published a hefty investigative piece on disparities in car insurance premiums in minority neighborhoods versus white neighborhoods. It looked at four states: California, Illinois, Texas, and, yes, Missouri.
The story’s lead anecdote compares the premium of a 26-year-old black man in the minority-heavy East Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago with the premium of a 34-year-old advertising executive in the city’s predominantly white Lakeview neighborhood.
The black man pays GEICO $190 a month to insurance his 2012 Honda Civic.
Read more: www.pitch.com/news/blog/20857373/missouri-car-insurance-industry-is-super-racist-report-finds
Earlier this week, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer dismissed ProPublica as a “left-wing blog.” ProPublica is not a left-wing blog. It is an independent, nonprofit news organization responsible for some of the finest investigative reporting in America. Sean Spicer is a sad, doomed clown, and he got owned for trying to imply that ProPublica is down in the hyper-partisan gutter with the Addicting Infos and Breitbarts of the world.
Today, ProPublica and Consumer Reports co-published a hefty investigative piece on disparities in car insurance premiums in minority neighborhoods versus white neighborhoods. It looked at four states: California, Illinois, Texas, and, yes, Missouri.
The story’s lead anecdote compares the premium of a 26-year-old black man in the minority-heavy East Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago with the premium of a 34-year-old advertising executive in the city’s predominantly white Lakeview neighborhood.
The black man pays GEICO $190 a month to insurance his 2012 Honda Civic.
Read more: www.pitch.com/news/blog/20857373/missouri-car-insurance-industry-is-super-racist-report-finds