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Black Unemployment Rises to 12.1 percent [Was 9% when Clown seized power]
Westside Gazette ^ | 2/11/14

Posted on 02/12/2014 5:38:04 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

At 12.1 percent the Black unemployment rate is nearly double the national unemployment rate of 6.6 percent. The unemployment rate for Black men over 20 years old jumped from 11.5 percent in December 2013 to 12 percent in January, compared to White men who  experienced a decrease in their unemployment rate from 5.6 percent in December 2013 to 5.4 percent in January...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jobs; race
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Not mentioned in the article is that the unemployment rate among blacks when Obama took over was 9%.....after 5+ years, it has increased by more than 30%.

Heckuva job, Barry.

1 posted on 02/12/2014 5:38:04 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Maybe,

But now they have health care ‘coverage’ that ‘cant be taken away’, unless those mean old white Republicans get elected again.

haven’t you heard ?
unemployment =leisure time=freedom.


2 posted on 02/12/2014 5:40:40 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'Any path to US citizenship for illegals HERE is a special path to it ')
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To: SoFloFreeper

This is where REPUBLICANS need to wake up. I KNOW there are plenty of black conservatives who OUGHT TO BE OUT EVERY DAY ripping into the fascist regime.


3 posted on 02/12/2014 5:41:59 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Black unemployment rises....??? Really?

But...but...they LOVE him!!


4 posted on 02/12/2014 5:42:24 AM PST by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: SoFloFreeper

12% ? What’s the REAL number ? It has to be 25%+ at minimum.


5 posted on 02/12/2014 5:43:40 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Funny, the news this morning had Dems claiming that Black unemployment is improving under Obama.


6 posted on 02/12/2014 5:50:41 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Blacks don’t work is because it is more lucrative to be on welfare and get all that free stuff. Why work when some other dude will pay your way? Many, many blacks live better than you or I as they pull down their free funding, free food, free housing, etc, etc. How long of a list do I need to create here? They know the system and how to use it to their best advantage. THAT is why they don’t work and it is NOT because there are not jobs, why are all those illegals sneaking in here to work for a better future?


7 posted on 02/12/2014 5:50:50 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: SoFloFreeper

...and what’s the effective rate?


8 posted on 02/12/2014 6:00:39 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Progov

It’s why it is a moral (and fiscal) imperative to end the gravy train.


9 posted on 02/12/2014 6:01:16 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Of course it has. I’ve noticed that a person can’t hire a black to work because of the freebies they get around here far exceed what a small business can afford to pay an entry worker. Not only are they given preference, the black community communicates within themselves where to apply and readily obtain freebies.


10 posted on 02/12/2014 6:06:33 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: SoFloFreeper

oh bull hockey, it’s gott be close to 30% or more


11 posted on 02/12/2014 6:07:15 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: SMARTY

That’s why they love him. More free time. Cant play knock out games while working 40 hrs a week.


12 posted on 02/12/2014 6:14:24 AM PST by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: SoFloFreeper

A snide question: Are those in jail counted as part of the labor force in computing unemployment statistics?


13 posted on 02/12/2014 6:17:30 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SoFloFreeper

And who is to blame for this mess? According to the Democrat pols quoted in the article, it’s the GOP for not handing out more benefits to those “looking for work.”


14 posted on 02/12/2014 6:27:55 AM PST by madprof98
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To: SoFloFreeper

They’ve been freed of their Job Lock!


15 posted on 02/12/2014 6:37:08 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: 1Old Pro

Actually, Obama doesn’t even have to bother with successful actions. He only has to lie, and the media will confirm the lie. Job done.


16 posted on 02/12/2014 6:48:10 AM PST by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: 1Old Pro
Funny, the news this morning had Dems claiming that Black unemployment is improving under Obama.

I see a fundamental disconnect with the people here commenting on this change in percentages.

INCREASING UNEMPLOYMENT _IS_ "IMPROVING".

17 posted on 02/12/2014 6:50:15 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Black Unemployment Rises to 12.1 percent [Was 9% when Clown seized power]

No sympathies here. The unemployed continue to support the indonesian/kenyan commie usurper because "he's a brother" and he supplies them with welfare and free 0bamaphones.

18 posted on 02/12/2014 7:17:32 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Who but a TYRANT shoves down another man's throat what he has exempted himself from?)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Low information voters and low education workers paid not to be productive by the Obama administration can only have this as an outcome. When you pay people to be unproductive, you will get more unproductive people.

It is time to tie compensation to productivity and break this cycle of despair.

19 posted on 02/12/2014 7:21:46 AM PST by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I wonder what percentage of black men 25-45 have full time jobs.

Don’t forget that those in prison aren’t counted as “unemployed.”


20 posted on 02/12/2014 7:43:59 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed ("Income Inequality?" Let's start with Washington DC vs. the rest of the nation!)
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