87% of Philly Rite Aid COVID Vaccine Doses Given to Whites, Only 4% to Blacks: Data Shows
On 3/6/21 at 10:32 AM EST
Philadelphia – which has a population that is 40 percent Black and where non-Hispanic whites make up just one-third of residents – has been overwhelmingly vaccinating white residents over others, according to new city data.
The trend is most stark within Rite Aid s distribution, which has so far given nearly 87 percent of its doses to white people. The pharmacy chain is the second-largest provider of vaccines allocated to Philadelphia, with nearly 80 stores across the city.
New data from the city shows that as of last February, for every 21 white people vaccinated from Rite Aid, only one Black person received a dose.
Jeff Ptak: And I m Jeff Ptak, chief ratings officer for Morningstar Research Services.
Benz: Our guest on the podcast today is
The
New York Times financial columnist and author Ron Lieber. His latest book is called
The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make. He is also the author of
The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money and coauthor of
Taking Time Off: Inspiring Stories of Students Who Enjoyed Successful Breaks From College and How You Can Plan Your Own. Ron has been the Your Money columnist for
Link Copied
William Henry Dorsey was an information hoarder. An African American of means who lived in 19th-century Philadelphia, Dorsey suffered from a “malady” that afflicted others of his era: archive fever. He spent much of his long life he was born in 1837 and died in 1923 clipping newspaper articles and pasting them into one or another of nearly 400 scrapbooks, organized by topic.
Dorsey’s scrapbooks represent a bricolage of one man’s far-ranging interest in African American history and culture. He clipped articles mainly from northern newspapers, Black and white, including some extremely rare publications. The scrapbooks hold articles on Black emigration schemes, fraternal orders, actors, and centenarians who lived through slavery. Dorsey devoted one scrapbook to an 1881 North Carolina convention of Black Republicans, one of many such gatherings at which African Americans envisioned post-emancipation political futures. He devoted another scrapbook to lynchings,
Most of the former New Jersey country estate that once belonged to the oldest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte is to be part of the state's park system following a recent purchase.