National Urban League’s Marc Morial: Inflation will impact Black working families the hardest

Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, joins CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the key takeaways from the organizaiton’s 46th annual State of Black America report.

Congresswoman Barbara Lee says Trump turns deaf ear on black community’s concerns

Nearly five months to the day before his inauguration, then-Republican nominee Donald Trump tried to pitch his campaign to black voters with a single question: “What do you have to lose?”

Three months after his inauguration, the Congressional Black Caucus eagerly responded with a 130-page policy document entitled “We have a Lot to Lose,” outlining legislation they say would help African Americans and similarly marginalized communities.

That request fell on deaf ears, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, said Saturday at an annual “State of Black America” panel at Laney College. She encouraged people at the Making Connections event to “be at the table with the black agenda and demand those resources,” with or without help from the administration.

“Remember President Trump said ‘What do we have to lose?’ to the black community? Well, we answered him and sent him an entire agenda as it relates to the African American community,” Lee said. Trump “invited us to come to the White House and Cedric Richmond, our chair, said no. He was fully disgusted with our president and his agenda on all of the issues that we’re talking about today.”

“The Congressional Black Caucus is not only the heart and soul of the resistance movement in Congress but also leading on so many issues that we care about here in the Bay Area,” said Lee, a caucus member.

The panel highlighted a number of concerns for the group of a few hundred people, predominantly African Americans, in the audience, including economic disparity between black and white communities, homelessness, housing struggles and criminal justice reform.

Speakers at the Oakland event included Lee, San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen, Oakland Councilwoman Lynette Gibson McElhaney, Mark Ridley-Thomas of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and National Urban League Vice President Don Cravins Jr.

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National Urban League' Releases 2016 State of Black America Report

The National Urban League has released the 2016 State of Black America Report, Locked Out, Education, Jobs, and Justice.

Here are ten facts from the 2016 findings

Since 1976, Black unemployment has consistently remained about twice that of the white rate across time, regardless of education.

Black Americans are only slightly less likely today to live in poverty than they were in 1976.

Highest median household income for Blacks ($66,151) & whites ($109,460) was in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV area.

Toledo, OH had lowest median Black household income ($22,386). White household income low but still more than double Black income.

Foreclosure crisis has left Black homeownership rates the same as in 1976, while white homeownership went up 5 percentage points.

For Latinos, median household incomes were closest to white household income in Urban Honolulu, HI, at 80 cents for every dollar.

The metropolitan area with the lowest Hispanic unemployment rate, at 4.6%, was Tulsa, OK,

There has been some progress: slow, ongoing reduction in poverty. Black poverty rate is 2.4 percentage points lower than in 1976.

Despite progress for Black America, there's been much less progress towards economic equality w/whites, especially in education.

Gap in civic participation between Blacks and whites has narrowed 7 percentage points since 1976.

Read the entire report here: 2016 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY