OLD NEWS, NEW YEAR "Black Americans still trail whites on such basics as income, education and health, a study showed on Wednesday, even as Sen. Barack Obama's barrier-breaking run for the presidency has renewed the national focus on race. Across a range of economic indicators including measures of employment, poverty, housing, income and wealth, blacks were much worse off than whites. If whites scored 100 percent on such measures, blacks scored just 56.8 percent, a figure unchanged from last year, the National Urban League said."