Friday's jobs report was disappointing, but it also contained a truly heartbreaking statistic. Black teen unemployment is ashocking 41.6%. In July last year, the unemployment was considerably lower, at 36%. That almost half of black teens who want to work can't find jobs is a stain on Obama's economic policies.
This isn't a numbers trick. This isn't a rate based on the whole black teen population in the country. This is the proportion of the black teen population that is looking for work but can't find a job. Just in March, the number was eight points lower at 33%. The white teen unemployment rate is half the black rate, although still high at 20%.
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6 comments:
What's shocking, 58.4 percent are employed.
but we love our black president. why?......................
Anon 12:15 PM I find that hard to believe. I think it may be closer to 0%.
it's more like 80% unemployment
Can you imagine the outcry if this president was WHITE? Unemployment at 8% for 5 straight years, his signature initiative (obamacare) passed without even knowing what it was and then becoming a "train wreck" of a law that even his own government tries to get exempted from, shutting down space exploration by NASA, presiding over an economy that grows by 1% (!!) a year, getting our credit rating (as a nation) reduced to junk bond status, soldiers and diplomats left to die as he watches the live video stream and says "stand down" to rescue teams, the NSA scandals, God, the list is too long. Good thing he's a "free slave" or he would have been locked up already.
It's about time to start thinning the herd of miscreants.
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