Report: Federal Intervention Needed to Stem African American Unemployment

AFL-CIO ^ | Dec 15, 2011 | Barbara Doherty

[mdittmar]

The misery of U.S. joblessness has everyone’s attention, but in the African American community, high unemployment has been the norm for 50 years, in good times and bad.

A new report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is calling for federal intervention to break the cycle that has kept the jobless rate among African Americans at twice the rate among whites.

The three-part plan includes the creation of public-sector jobs, job training with job placement programs and wage subsidies for employers.

EPI urges federal implementation of the program in counties and metropolitan areas of 25,000 people or more that have suffered unemployment of 6 percent or more for the the past 10 years.

Says Algernon Austin, director of EPI’s Race, Ethnicity and the Economy program and the report’s author:

Our economy should be one in which everyone who wants to work can find a job.

Read more here.

[MissMagnolia]

One of the complaints about Obama (from the left) is that he hasn't done enough for the African-American community. Doug Wilder wrote a recent article about who was the "first black president" - Clinton or Obama ..... the conclusion being that Clinton, although not black by birth, had done more for blacks. Wilder still has hopes that Obama will do more in his second term (God forbid, please!). How "convenient" that with a re-election campaign looming and discontent with Obama over not helping A-As, suddenly there is a call for the Federal government to do more.

[Hoffer Rand]

Our economy should be one in which everyone who wants to work can find a job.

I think I see the flaw in this report. Wonder if they bothered to ask how many of these "unemployed" actually want to find a job versus how many are happy just bilking the system for all it's worth.

[ExTxMarine]

How "convenient" that with a re-election campaign looming and discontent with Obama over not helping A-As, suddenly there is a call for the Federal government to do more.

And the MSM will push this meme as an "obvious" demand from "the people" and only The Won can deliver these demands! It is all part of their re-election plans for The Won!

[sr4402]

Actually, money is the issue. Particularly the Minimum Wage which the Democrats raised during a Recession. These, by-en-large dried up the low paying jobs that this article is talking about.

Their solution is more government. No the solution is to drop the minimum wage law and get folks back to work. For once a person has a job, it is far easier to get a better one in the future.

No, the Democrats made the Unemployment rise by raising the Minimum wage. Just wait till you see what will happen in San Francisco when they raise theirs to $10 and hour.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

More than half of American Black families raise children without a full time father in the house. No guidance, no direction. Just mom pumping out bastard kids and getting a government check for every one of them.
The AFL-CIO should understand that.

[Farmer Dean]

We’re stuck out here,just clinging to our guns and Bibles.

[Gaffer]

And, despite the reality of the effect Prophet Obama has on his future Muslim supporters, they will vote overwhelmingly for him in the election. It is a certainty.

[I thought about saying Messiah instead of Prophet, but Messiah has connotations of something related to the Judeo-Christian experience - and we ALL know this man has nothing to do with either; he is a Muslim]

[stylin19a]

These guys are nutz....

African Americans still reside mainly in separate and unequal communities. In 2010, in the 100 metropolitan areas with the largest African American populations, 62.5 percent of blacks would have had to move to achieve full black–white integration.

Blacks move in the whites move out....aint racist, just the truth.

[aimhigh]

in the African American community, high unemployment has been the norm for 50 years, in good times and bad.50 years ago was about when Pres Johnson declared his war on poverty and proceeded to destroy the black family.

[2ndDivisionVet]

A billion is a thousand million and a trillion is a thousand billion. We have spent untold trillions on the “War on Poverty” so far. Uncle Sugar could’ve bought every human on Earth a Western-style ranch house, a car, a college education and still had trillions left over!

[repentant_pundit]

Federal Intervention Needed to Stem African American Unemployment thoughts of voting non-demoncrat

There, fixed it.

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[pallis]

Less government is what unemployed black people need. More money in the private sector creating jobs will do more to help everyone than all the government intervention liberals can dream up.

[Terry Mross]

The three-part plan includes the creation of public-sector jobs? Go to any VA hospital and compare the whites to blacks. The public-sector is already mostly black so they’re going to “create” some more.

[woodbutcher1963]

“BBQ wings taster?”

Hey ! That’s my job !

[allmendream]

“Among a large class (in Washington D.C.) there seemed to be a dependence upon the Government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the Federal officials to create one for them.” Booker T. Washington

The more things change - the more they stay the same.

[traditional1]

Oh, what a surprise.

Recommending MORE taxpayer dollars to be funneled to benefit African-Americans (aka, Blacks), who can then join the Union, and pay Dues, to be funneled back to the DNC, so we can do it all over again.

We've been doing this forever, and Blacks are STILL not employed (most, because the Gubmint says they have a "Right" to free stuff)

[RC2]

Yes, it is a broad brush, but look at the drop out rate in schools and the jobless rate amongst minorities. Even when times are good, the numbers are higher. I also have been in the service with great minorities and worked with them in the private sectors.

[TigersEye]

“African” Americans have been asking for and getting help from the Federal government for over forty years. How’s that workin’ out?

[mcshot]

Having seen their best I don’t want a damn thing to do with the ...

[dfwgator]

. Wonder if they bothered to ask how many of these "unemployed" actually want to find a job versus how many are happy just bilking the system for all it's worth.

"We don't care about the jobs, we just want the money."