Posted on 06/10/2011 5:51:45 AM PDT by markomalley
Less than half of African-American men now have full-time jobs, and less than half of all white men will have full-time jobs in 2018, according to post-2000 trends hidden in federal population and workforce data.
There are roughly 14 million people formally labeled as unemployed, but “there’s probably 22 million to 23 million people who are unemployed, mal-employed or underemployed,” said Andrew Sum, an economics professor at Northeastern University in Boston.
The hidden data shows that “we’ve got an overwhelming job gap that effects men more than women, less-educated men more then better-educated men, and the group aged 25 to 29 the most,” he said.
One startling result, he said, is that only 43 percent of African-American men aged 18 to 29 have a full-time job.
This trend is obvious to T. Willard Fair, head of the Urban League of Greater Miami. He recently advertised two janitorial jobs via the unemployment office in his local town Liberty City. The city is 85 percent African-American, yet “only 2 of the 33 applicants were African-American,” he said. “The remainder were Hispanics or Haitians.”
“People want to work, and if they can find jobs, they would take those jobs … [but] blacks are no longer even applying for those kinds of jobs, or have concluded they’re not going to get those jobs,” he said.
There’s recently been a run of bad news about unemployment trends. That’s damaged the White House’s poll ratings, but the federal government’s unemployment estimate — now 9.1 percent — counts only a portion of the nation’s non-working population. That’s because the 9.1 percent counts only people who have sought work in the last four weeks, and have failed to find employment of 35 hours or more per week.
Vote Democratic-things will be better in 2020!
First “unexpected”, now “troubling”. Just wow.
Good Lord, this man is an absolute train wreck.
When I have more time, I’m going to do some digging & demonstrate FDR’s policies on illegals during the depression (he shipped them out) which was continued by both Truman and Ike (who ramped it up with Operation Wetback).
This dumbass wants to legalize them for votes.
And he’ll still get 90% of the African American vote. Unbelievable.
Mike
All my personal experiences confirm it's findings.
It is nearly impossible to find a lower class white or a black that is willing to do certain type of jobs. And if they are willing... they do a pathetic job compared to the Hispanics I hire.
It's VERY frustrating! I you think I prefer speaking to all my employees in broken Spanish your mistaken. But if you think I am going to put up with you standing around taking a smoking brake every 15 minutes, or stealing, or showing up for work on drugs, or worse yet DOING drugs at work, then you got another thing coming!
The contrast on the street corners here in Silicon Valley is amazing. Most of the panhandling bums are black while all of the guys seeking work are Hispanic. Every construction project is built with Hispanic labor and you don’t see blacks on the team. Look for menial jobs (the guys dancing around with signs on the corners, doing janitorial work, mowing lawns, etc) and they are all staffed with Hispanics, not blacks.
Plus, allow millions more, uneducated and illiterate illegals to continuously flood the workforce.
“... When I have more time, I’m going to do some digging & demonstrate FDR’s policies on illegals during the depression (he shipped them out) which was continued by both Truman and Ike (who ramped it up with Operation Wetback). ...”
But there was no social network (welfare, food stamps) to fall back upon instead of working, so blacks had to work or starve. Welfare provides about $24,000 tax free benefits to a single mom who supports her pimp boyfriend. If the bum got a job he would be lucky to make $20K/year. If you had no self respect and a sense of oppression, would you work or make the “MAN” provide some payback/restitution?
I blame the liberal whites more than the blacks.
The point was during the FDR administration illegals were not allowed and there was no food stamps so blacks had to work or starve.
Now they have a choice.
So why do illegals work? To send money back home. So they work black bag money jobs AND take welfare.
Much of this is by choice not because they are looking for a job.
Much of this is by choice not because they can't find a job.
I guess we better let the women be the bread winners.
Pimps agree got to keep the caddy clean.
Exactly. Many of the jobs they take pay them under the table which never gets taxed. Must be nice if you can get away with it.
I know many who work as housekeepers, lawn care, who get paid cash and it is never reported. Since the work is for individuals there is no way to track it. And they certainly aren't going to rat out one another.
What's "startling"?
The Democrat party has worked for decades to establish and grow its "free shit army" as a reliable voter base of government-addicted parasites. And now somebody's "startled"?
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