Trends in Black Purchasing Power of Generation X Purchasing power for Blacks both alone and in combination with other ethnicities (AOIC) increased faster than all races from 2005-2007, but started to lose that growth rate over 2007-08. The consumers who identified as polyethnic increased earnings faster at first but those slowed to even more sharply negative at the end of our period. all races white alone blackAlone Black AOIC Asian Alone Hispanic 2005 25,036 26,496 16,874 16,629 27,331 14,483 2006 26,352 27,821 17,902 17,564 30,474 15,421 2007 26,804 28,325 18,428 18,107 29,901 15,603 2008 26,964 28,502 18,406 18,054 30,292 15,674 2005-06 5.26% 5.00% 6.09% 5.62% 11.50% 6.48% 2006-07 1.72% 1.81% 2.94% 3.09% -1.88% 1.18% 2007-08 0.60% 0.62% -0.12% -0.29% 1.31% 0.46% Most Profitable Product to

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