To be black in the St. Louis region means that you are more than three times as likely as your white neighbors to live in poverty, be unemployed, have less education, die earlier and have a child die in infancy.

A study with new data that is markedly similar to many earlier studies was released last week by the East-West Gateway Council of Governments. It shows that St. Louis has one of the highest racial-economic disparities of any major urban area in the United States.