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onsumer spending patterns, but
t does not contain the level of
etail that would show how often
dollar would circulate in a
iven community. The Bureau of
abor Statistics also produces
eports on black spending pat-
erns. But this data also does not
how how often money circulates
ithin a neighborhood.
Other agencies like the Small
usiness Administration keep
rack of black businesses. But the
BA also does not compile fig-
res that would allow a compari-
on of how often money circu-
ates within a community.
Private research organizations
uch as Nielsen and the Chicago-
ased
Target Market News
also
rack Black spending patterns.
The available data shows that
3 million Blacks in the United
tates have about $1.1 trillion in
pending power. Additionally,
he most recent government data
hows there were 2.6 million
lack or African American-
wned firms nationally in 2012,
p from 1.9 million or 34.5 per-
ent in 2007.
But
TruthBeTold.news
was
nable to locate any agencies or
rivate research firms with data
hat show how long money circu-
ates within a community.
TruthBeTold.news
also asked for
he source of the six-hour time-
rame mentioned on the NAACP
ebsite in an article posted on
ept. 24, 2012.
In an email, Nicole Kenney, the
riter of the NAACP article, said
he used several sources, includ-
ng Maggie Anderson’s 2012
ook and data from Nielsen and
he Minority Business and
evelopment Agency.
TruthBeTold.news
also contact-
d the Selig Center about the fig-
res attributed to the economic
esearch unit: “Money circulates
ero to one time within the Black
ommunity, compared to the
ore than six times it circulates
n the Latino community, nine
imes in the Asian community
nd unlimited amount of times
ithin the white community.”
In an email, Jeffrey M.
umphreys, director of the center,
aid: “I’ve never heard that. It’s not
rom our center, and it does not
ound accurate, but I’ve got no
dea what the actual number are.”
The data appears to have first
een used in a book by author
rooke Stephens, a financial plan-
er. The book,
Talking Dollars and
aking Sense: A Wealth Building
uide for African-Americans
, was
ritten in 1996 and cites the six-
our figure on page 18 of the book.
There is no reference to the orig-
nal source of the data or the
tudy. Stephens attributes the data
to a “John Wray,” who is
escribed as an “economic devel-
pment specialist” in Washington.
here is no other mention of Wray
r the study in the book.
TruthBeTold.news
reached out to
tephens, who lives in Brooklyn,
.Y., for more information about
ray and the study.
In an interview, Stephens said
ray and a co-author, Lee Green,
id the study over a six-month
eriod in 1992, possibly through
nonprofit organization that
ight no longer exist. She did
ot remember the name of the
eport and could not provide any
nformation about Wray or
reen, beyond saying that Wray
ight have taught at Howard
niversity in 1993. The human
resource office at Howard said it
could not find a reference to a
Jim or John Wray. In addition,
TruthBeTold.news
was unable to
locate Lee Green or any studies
co-authored by him.
There was no media coverage
of the study that can be found in
the LexisNexis research data-
base, and the only reference to
the study appears to be in
Stephens’ book.
TruthBeTold also reached out
to Maggie Anderson to see if she
remembered the name of the
study or could provide any infor-
mation about Wray.
“I know Brooke Stephens. I
know about the statistic,”
Anderson said. “I did run into her
phenomenal research and the study
about the economic lifespan of a
dollar in different ethnic groups.”
Anderson attributes the six-
hour figure in “Our Black Year”
to Brooke Stephens’ book. “I
published her findings in my
book, ‘Our Black Year,’ and I
refer to it whenever I speak and
interview. I have been promoting
that six-hour statistic quite heav-
ily over the past six years.”
She continues to say how it is
the foundation of her work and
research commissioned for her
year-long
Empowerment
Experiment through Steven
Rogers, a professor at the
Kellogg School of Management
at Northwestern University.
“Our Kellogg study proved that
less than three percent of our $1
trillion in buying power makes it
back to our community via our
spending with our businesses and
the companies that engage our
businesses,” she said.
Anderson said the study also
found “that if the middle-class
Black consumers were to spend a
little more — seven percent
more, just 10 percent of their
spending — with Black firms
and the mainstream firms that
engage them, we can create
almost one million jobs.” She
also includes the six-hour figure
and the Kellogg findings in an
essay in the National Urban
League’s 2014 State of Black
America report.
“Brooke Stephens’ statistic
about the six hours shows why
we need to do more to support
our businesses and reverse the
exploitation of our consumers
and the socio-economic crises
our neighborhoods endure,”
Anderson said.
TruthBeTold.news
also reached
out to other Black economic
development advocates who have
cited the figure and while many
of them had heard of the num-
bers, not one had actually seen
the study that produced them.
“I’ve been trying to kill this thing
for years,” said Ken Smikle, presi-
dent of
Target Market News
, a
Chicago-based research firm that
tracks Black spending patterns.
“It’s just not true.”
Smikle, who has produced an
annual report called “The Buying
Power of Black America” for near-
ly two decades, disputes the notion
that the circulation of money can
be tracked in a community.
“There is no scientific way to do
that,” Smikle said. “I mean, how
would you do it?”
Economists contacted by
TruthBeTold.news
to review the
figures agree.
“It’s what I consider an urban
myth,” said William Spriggs, a for-
mer labor department official in
the Obama Administration, who is
now chief economist at the AFL-
CIO union. Spriggs also teaches
economics at Howard University.
Spriggs said a red flag for him
was the mention of dollars circu-
lating in the Jewish community
for 19 days.
“What makes me suspicious is
that it has economic data based
on religion when the federal gov-
ernment doesn’t collect any
information
by
religion,”
Spriggs said. “Where would you
get that from?”
“When you say Asian commu-
nities you’re talking about a very
diverse population that includes
Indians, Chinese, Japanese,
Koreans and they are all differ-
ent and not a monolithic commu-
nity. It would be a mistake to try
to include all of these different
people under one umbrella to
talk about spending in communi-
ties,” he said.
He added: “And even if you
surveyed customers about their
spending with business, how
would you know the religion of
the person who owned the busi-
ness? If I shop at Macy’s, I don’t
know the religion of the person
who owns it.”
Justin Wolfers, an economics
professor at the University of
Michigan, cited other problems
with the figures used by Stephens
and others.
First, there is no clear definition
of community. “Are we talking
about specific neighborhoods or as
a whole?” Wolfers asked.
Secondly, he points out, like
Spriggs, that the federal govern-
ment does not collect economic
information by religion nor does it
collect hourly economic activity.
“It seems highly improbable that
you could get this data the way it’s
described,” Wolfers said. “The
inclusion of religion data alone
makes me question the figures.”
A screenshot from NewsOne
Now with the statistics from
Talking Dollars and Making Sense
by Brooke Stephens.
Truth Be Told
The claim that a dollar circulates
in the Black community for only
six hours cannot be substantiated.
The federal government does not
produce data that would allow
such a comparison.
In addition, economists contact-
ed by
TruthBeTold.news
said some
of the data cited, such as informa-
tion about dollars circulating in the
Jewish community, is questionable
because the federal government
does not collect information by
religion. And researchers would be
unable to get the information accu-
rately from a survey of consumers.
The earliest source of the statis-
tic appears to be a book that is
nearly 20 years old. The book also
never mentions the name of the
study nor provides any information
about the author.
Economic experts agree that
Blacks may spend little of their
estimated $1.1 trillion in buying
power with Black business. And
they agree that efforts like
Anderson’s to patronize those
businesses are laudable goals. But
they add that proponents should
stop using the six-hour figure
because, while it is shocking, it
cannot be verified.
“I understand where people who
use this figure are coming from and
I don’t want to downplay the issue,
but you don’t solve the problem by
using questionable data,” said
Spriggs, the Howard economist.
Brookie Madison is a staff writer
for
TruthBeTold.news
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