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Workzone: Black teen unemployment rate almost twice U.S. average
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | 1/18/14 | Ann Belser

Posted on 01/20/2014 4:41:18 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

School children all over the country know that Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. There have been essay contests to commemorate the holiday, and classes nationwide will be listening to recordings of the civil rights leader's 1963 "I Had a Dream" speech.

Fulfilling that dream, however, won't be helped by the fact that the unemployment rate for black teenagers is 35.5 percent. The rate for all teenagers is 20.2 percent.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adulterer; alittleblow; ihadascheme; jobs; martinlutherkingjr; obamafail; race
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To: SoFloFreeper

They drop out of school in the 10th. grade, having achieved perhaps 6th. grade proficiency. And then begin amassing a criminal record.

What would you expect?


41 posted on 01/20/2014 7:12:33 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SoFloFreeper

Pull up your pants, be clean, learn English, don’t expect something you have not earned, be on time and be willing to LISTEN AND LEARN! Some part of this can be applied to every out of work person!


42 posted on 01/20/2014 7:13:41 AM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: kearnyirish2

And telling people that we’re beaten is a great motivator.

Here’s an unpopular truth.

Most conservatives are pathetic whiners who don’t have the courage to do any heavy lifting.


43 posted on 01/20/2014 7:15:37 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Amnesty will fix this.


44 posted on 01/20/2014 7:20:19 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: SoFloFreeper
I think we need a big "Shout Out" here for LBJ and the Great Society!

"I'll have those N*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years!" - President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964

45 posted on 01/20/2014 7:20:59 AM PST by Gritty (Liberals think living your life free of welfare, EBT, and government nannies is "cheating"-J Hawkins)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Pull up your pants, be clean, learn English, don’t expect anything you have not earned. Take any job you can find, be on time, be willing to DO YOUR JOB, LISTEN AND LEARN! Some part of this can be applied to every out of work person!


46 posted on 01/20/2014 7:24:50 AM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: cripplecreek

“Most conservatives are pathetic whiners who don’t have the courage to do any heavy lifting.”

Maybe; this conservative went out and got married, had children, and works his arse off to make a go of it. Too many people can’t be bothered with the first two; it is showing in the demographics we’re working against.


47 posted on 01/20/2014 8:12:20 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

Conservatism isn’t hereditary.


48 posted on 01/20/2014 8:16:41 AM PST by Ted Grant
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

The Obama Recession

and

The Obama Tax Hikes


49 posted on 01/20/2014 11:41:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv (;http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Ted Grant

“Conservatism isn’t hereditary.”

I guess that’s up to the parents.


50 posted on 01/20/2014 2:29:46 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: jdsteel
2014 "I had a job"!

It's incomprehensible that blacks are letting Obama off the hook. How many jobs that black youth could be filling have been taken by "Dream Act" invaders? That has been Obama's most significant "gift" to black youth.

51 posted on 01/20/2014 2:34:57 PM PST by grania
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To: SoFloFreeper

Could the high black unemployment rate have something to do with the high criminal rate among young black males?

Or is it just the color of skin?


52 posted on 01/20/2014 4:25:05 PM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: kearnyirish2

Not really. People have minds of their own.


53 posted on 01/20/2014 5:13:07 PM PST by Ted Grant
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