Black Unemployment: Highest In 27 Years ["Hope and Change" Was Slogan For Idiots!]

CNN ^ | September 02, 2011 | Annalyn Censky

[Steelfish]

Black Unemployment: Highest In 27 Years

By Annalyn Censky September 2, 2011

The unemployment rate for blacks surged to 16.7% in August, its highest rate since 1984, the Labor Department reported Friday.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The August jobs report was dismal for plenty of reasons, but perhaps most striking was the picture it painted of racial inequality in the job market.

Black unemployment surged to 16.7% in August, its highest level since 1984, while the unemployment rate for whites fell slightly to 8%, the Labor Department reported.

"This month's numbers continue to bear out that longstanding pattern that minorities have a much more challenging time getting jobs," said Bill Rodgers, chief economist with the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.

Black unemployment has been roughly double that of whites since the government started tracking the figures in 1972.

Economists blame a variety of factors. The black workforce is younger than the white workforce, lower numbers of blacks get a college degree and many live in areas of the country that were harder hit by the recession -- all things that could lead to a higher unemployment rate. But even excluding those factors, blacks still are hit with higher joblessness.

[New Jersey Realist]

Post #4: VERY WELL SAID!

[New Jersey Realist]

Thank you for your comments (Post #9). I PROUDLY served on the submarine named after a great black man GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER.

[tarotsailor]

Speaking as a person who spends more than their fair share of time on the street, 80% of blacks are staunch defenders, quoting “since government and white corporations are white controlled, what can he do, and if he does anything for ‘his people’ with whites in control he has to bend a few rules” and “of course he can’t make headway with the white racist Tea Party sabotaging everything he does” I hear over and over ad nauseaum like flocks of ethnic parrots. Now the word is “We HAVE to support Obama because if he loses the election, the racist republicans will put him in prison for trying to help the black man.”

The 20% who refuse to talk about Obama, I suppose have doubts they do not vocalize. In my area a black teacher who supported a Republican candidate by putting his campaign sign on her lawn, had her car destroyed with a gasoline bomb and her home vandalized within 24hrs.

The population labeled “Black” does not vote in lockstep, but there is extreme pressure on them to do so. Those who break out from that coercion are heroic regardless of their political leaning.

[NoLibZone]

The black caucus must think Obama is in the TeaParty becasue they will blame the TP.

[Vaduz]

Economists blame a variety of factors.Where did I hear that before I just can’t place my finger on it?. /s

[SkyPilot]

The MSM implies in the article that racism is a factor for high black unemployment, but they also mention other factors that should be expanded upon.

1. College: less blacks as a percentage earn college degrees than whites, but even of those blacks who do earn a college or university degree, what do they study?

2. Victim hood: how many blacks approach life as one big anger-fest, and who wants to hire that individual? Countless black "churches", politicians, and organizations do nothing productive. All they do is incite hate and sell anger - and there are plenty of black customers who buy it.

3. Affirmative Action: because of Govt mandated quotas, blacks receive special treatment in college admission and job placement - even in areas where they do not qualify or can compete. How many blacks are given scholarships in engineering, but learn the curriculum is beyond their ability? These students may have been better suited to something else, but were lied to by the very colleges and universities that were supposed to help them.

[Niuhuru]

Then let them act like citizens and not mooches.