Missouri car insurance industry is super racist, report finds [View all]

Earlier this week, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer dismissed ProPublica as a “left-wing blog.” ProPublica is not a left-wing blog. It is an independent, nonprofit news organization responsible for some of the finest investigative reporting in America. Sean Spicer is a sad, doomed clown, and he got owned for trying to imply that ProPublica is down in the hyper-partisan gutter with the Addicting Infos and Breitbarts of the world.

Today, ProPublica and Consumer Reports co-published a hefty investigative piece on disparities in car insurance premiums in minority neighborhoods versus white neighborhoods. It looked at four states: California, Illinois, Texas, and, yes, Missouri.

The story’s lead anecdote compares the premium of a 26-year-old black man in the minority-heavy East Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago with the premium of a 34-year-old advertising executive in the city’s predominantly white Lakeview neighborhood.

The black man pays GEICO $190 a month to insurance his 2012 Honda Civic.

Read more: http://www.pitch.com/news/blog/20857373/missouri-car-insurance-industry-is-super-racist-report-finds