QUESTION: Where in Africa are African Americans from?

Seventy-five percent of all venture capital supports entrepreneurs in only three states: California, Massachusetts and New York. This rocket fuel of our economy is not flowing – inward from the coasts, outward beyond a few big cities – to places where it is needed.

This challenge is not only geographic–just 2 percent of venture capital goes to women-led firms and a mere 1 percent to African American-led businesses. The unequal distribution of startup capital is a form of economic injustice.

While the Pew report used the most recent census figures, it did not include businesses with no paid employees, said Larry Eichel, project director of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Philadelphia research initiative who worked on the report, in an email.

African Americans tend to have businesses with no employees or payrolls, which could include caterers, daycare providers, construction workers, subcontractors, and those in the gig economy.

When these sole proprietors are taken into account, the total estimated number of Black businesses in Philadelphia was 25.1%, outpacing the national average (9.3%)

Gallup averages show Trump with a 10% approval rating among blacks in 2017, 11% in 2018 and 10% so far in 2019. In short, Trump's approval rating among blacks has essentially not changed over time, despite blacks presumably having had plenty of time to observe the economic gains that Trump touts as the reason why they should be moving into his camp.

Approval ratings for an incumbent president have a significant relationship to actual election outcomes. I think it is fair to say that Trump's progress toward a substantially higher share of the black vote than he got in 2016 is in severe doubt if he maintains a 10% black approval rating. Notably, the last Republican president before Trump, George W. Bush, had a 14% approval rating among blacks in 2004 as he was seeking re-election. Bush received 11% of the black vote that November.

Hawaii is the toughest place to earn a comfortable living, at $96,100 in income on a 91-hour workweek — 13 hours a day on the job doesn’t leave much time to enjoy paradise. Washington, D.C. is in the second spot at $78,310 and 44 hours, followed by California at $66,754 and 63 hours.

On the flip side, the South is where it’s the easiest, led by Mississippi at $40,400 and 53 hours. Oklahoma is next at $41,113 and 48 hours.

“There isn’t a single state in the country where an average worker can enjoy a comfortable living on 40 hours or less of work per week,”