Posted on 11/24/2009 4:54:05 AM PST by NRG1973
These days, 24-year-old Delonta Spriggs spends much of his time cooped up in his mother's one-bedroom apartment in Southwest Washington, the TV blaring soap operas hour after hour, trying to stay out of the streets and out of trouble, held captive by the economy. As a young black man, Spriggs belongs to a group that has been hit much harder than any other by unemployment.
Joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions -- 34.5 percent in October, more than three times the rate for the general U.S. population. And last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment in the District, home to many young black men, rose to 11.9 percent from 11.4 percent, even as it stayed relatively stable in Virginia and Maryland.
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The jobless rate for young black men and women is 30.5 percent. For young blacks -- who experts say are more likely to grow up in impoverished racially isolated neighborhoods, attend subpar public schools and experience discrimination -- race statistically appears to be a bigger factor in their unemployment than age, income or even education. Lower-income white teens were more likely to find work than upper-income black teens, according to the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, and even blacks who graduate from college suffer from joblessness at twice the rate of their white peers.
Young black women have an unemployment rate of 26.5 percent, while the rate for all 16-to-24-year-old women is 15.4 percent
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
It makes no mention of whether 24 year old Delonta ever had a job to begin with.
Perhaps you should read the article. Apparently Delonta has done that and the job training isn’t yielding any jobs either.
They are more unemployed than you are.
As long as they don't actually have to get off their asses donkeys and actually do something.
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re: ever had a job to begin with
I wondered the same thing. Has he lost his job, or is he unemployed, or both?
Killjoy. </sarc>
Problem is if you hire a black person, how do you fire them or lay them off without a lawsuit brought against you.
Same with hiring a black coach. How many have been fired that haven't screamed racism or had the media scream it for them?
According to the article, there are three black Americans to “balance” you out......
Good luck on your job search......In this economic environment, you’ll need it......
Not when they realize there is actually WORK involved. Why work for money when you can sit on mom's couch and paid to do nothing.
Maybe he should apply for a position as an English teacher.
Yes. If you're white, you don't count, you don't matter, even though you are in the majority and pay all the taxes. Face it. It is not "fashionable" these days to be white and Washington in general, and 0bama, in particular, could care less about your problems. PC has run amok.
That is where the Obama machine comes into play. They have cell phone numbers (remember the VP announcement promised to go to cell phones first) and they have 'early voting'. Those cell numbers will be hounded to absentee vote early. Several ladies in my office did this last time around. Wouldn't surprise me if we could vote at WalMart next time around.
Wait til they turn in their “income tax” return and find their “earned income credit” is offset by their lack of “proof of health insurance”.
You get what you vote for. 95% of these people WANTED this, let them have it. Enjoy the cake.
You get what you vote for. 95% of these people WANTED this, let them have it. Enjoy the cake.
“Whadaya mean I’m going to have to BUY health insurance - they told me it’d be free!”
Then they’re going to have to toss in a hefty amount of “walking-around money” for every vote they get.
I smell big-time disillusionment.
McD's is hiring here, only the "want to be" unemployed are, in the south.
Obligatory Joke:
God holds a press conference and announces that due to mankind’s evil, he is going to destroy the world next Thursday. The next day the newspaper headlines read: Wall Street Journal: World Ends Thursday, Markets expected to Dive!; Washington Post: World to End Thursday, Women and Blacks Hardest Hit.
Heee, I know it’s a past time here to comment on the blurbs. Heck, I do it freely myself! LOL
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