Blacks’ Joblessness Growing While White Unemployment Rate Holds Steady

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Blacks’ Joblessness Growing While White Unemployment Rate Holds Steady

Date: Monday, December 05, 2005
By: Michael H. Cottman

Democrats said Monday that President George W. Bush’s economic policy is partly responsible for a staggering 10.6 percent unemployment rate among black Americans, which is more than twice the national unemployment rate of whites and the largest one-month increase on record.

The federal government’s November figures show the unemployment rate among whites is holding steady at 4.3 percent, while the black unemployment rate continues to climb to record levels, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

Black congressional leaders and some economists said the inability of black Hurricane Katrina evacuees to find jobs as a result of their displacement is contributing to the high black unemployment rates.

"As usual President Bush is totally off the mark with his economic outlook,” Amaya Smith, deputy press secretary for the Democratic National Committee, told BlackAmericaWeb.com.

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But the failure of the feds after Katrina was a CLASS issue not a RACE issue.......

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When they are concentrated into pockets of poverty all around the country it's even worse..

Most jobs these days are not manual labor..Poor people are the least likely to have higher education, and manual labor jobs have always been their milieu..

24% of Blacks live in poverty
8% of whites live in poverty