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The state of Wisconsin is home to “extreme racial disparity” compared to other states in economic opportunity, education and incarceration, says a new report by the Center on Wisconsin Strategy.

“Wisconsin has the regrettable distinction of ranking among the worst states in the nation in terms of racial equality,” begins the report by COWS, a nonprofit think tank based at UW-Madison.

The report pulls together data from public sources to illustrate the depth and breadth of racial disparities in the state.

For example, the African-American unemployment rate in Wisconsin was 19 percent in 2012 — three times that of whites. That disparity was exceeded by only two states, Nebraska and Iowa.

Wisconsin has the highest level of disparity in drop-out rates. Only 1.2 percent of whites in the state dropped out of high school in 2009-2010, compared to 7.5 percent of African Americans. No state came anywhere near that level of disparity.

And only Minnesota has a worse disparity in the rate of incarceration among men. Wisconsin locks up 12.8 percent of African-American men, the highest rate in the country, and just 1.2 percent of white men at 1.2 percent, just below the national average.