WASHINGTON — Many African-Americans in the nation’s capital are being left out of job sectors that are forecast to grow in coming years, according to a new Georgetown University study.
The report, “The State of African Americans in DC: Trends in Employment & Workforce Development,” concludes that for many black people in D.C., new jobs are increasingly out of reach.
While more than half of all new jobs in D.C. between 2010 and 2020 required or will require at least a bachelor’s degree, only 12.3 percent of D.C.’s African American population in 2014 were college graduates.
“They’re mainly professional services, jobs in education and health services, leisure and hospitality, financial activity, and many of these require an advanced degree,” said Maurice Jackson, history professor at Georgetown University. “Twenty years ago or 30 years ago, they may have just required a high school degree.”
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3 comments:
You must understand that now you need a bachelor's degree to work fast food in most places . If you attended UMES you would probably need a masters or doctorate .
All these promises of jobs everywhere seldom include working class people. East coast cities are all pandering to Amazon for the new Headquarters. There maybe a few janitorial and support jobs but most of these jobs with be in marketing, technical development and mid management. Nothing for working people to get excited about or support incentives with their tax money. Even the manufacturing jobs everyone want's back will not be like they were. Manufacturing has become so specialized,technical and automated that soon even coal mining will not require human hands in the holes. Nothing will every be the same. The clock does not turn back. You have to lean in get the BS degree or training to secure even an entry level sub-living wage job.
It doesn't just affect blacks, the same thing can be said for white americans as well.
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