AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY
Posted on 09/07/2009 10:56:59 AM PDT by Son House
Unemployment and job loss figures released for August 2009 by the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics did not hold any promise for economic recovery reaching American households soon.
While the number of jobs lost in August was down – a sign pointed to as evidence the recession is turning around – there was an increase in the number of people claiming unemployment. That figure jumped to 9.7 percent for all workers, up .3 percent from July and the highest level recorded in more than two decades.
The August bump was driven by increases in the jobless rates for adult men, Whites and Hispanics, but unemployment rates for African-Americans grew faster than those for the subgroups of adult men and Whites. The increase for Hispanics, seasonally adjusted, climbed 0.7 percent, to 13 percent for August.
The overall unemployment rate for African-Americans increased 0.6 percent from July to 15.1 percent. The rate for adult Black males increased 1.2 percent to 17 percent and the rate for adult Black females increased only 0.2 percent to 11.9 percent.
The Economic Policy Institute's Job Pictures report, released monthly after the Bureau of Labor's monthly statistics, indicates “this recession continues to shatter all records related to length of unemployment spells.” According to the report, 5 million of the workers currently unemployed have been without work for over six months, equivalent to approximately 3.2 percent of the labor force.
“Although the employment data released [Sept. 4] clearly show that the pace of layoffs is slowing, these unemployment data also shows equally clearly that unemployed workers are still not finding jobs,” the report stated.
The recession is also taking its toll on government positions. Municipalities continue to tighten their belts as a result of decreasing tax revenues, and the budget cuts decrease services and the number of available positions. The EPI report notes that 5,000 federal, 5,000 state and 8,000 local government jobs were lost in August. The federal jobs lost include 8,500 postal workers downsized.
While families and communities are not directly benefiting from stimulus spending, experts contend the situation would be worse if the large federal package had not gone through.
“Our interventions have contributed to significant cuts in the rate of job loss,” said Jared Bernstein, the top economic adviser to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in an interview with the New York Times. “We’re headed in the right direction, but we’re far from out of the woods. There are simply too many Americans seeking work.”
The EPI report suggests Congress extend unemployment benefits for the approximately 500,000 workers that will use up all their benefits by the end of September.
Democrat policies have made the unemployment situation worse since they took over Congress in 2006, 6.9 million jobs that have been lost.
Bush tax cuts weren't big enough, just like Rush Limbaugh said.
Obama’s fault. Uncle Tom Obama, that is.
Prison records, little education, little skills, unimpressive work histories can’t have anything to do with the issue.
Really ? I’m shocked!
Yeah, and I’m a racist extremist and I do not care one iota about the “magic negro’s” people.
Unquantifiable, unverifiable, unfalsifiable. Hits the 'rat sweetspot..
Well, DUH!!!!!!!
Well, there you go. Looking at anything besides race is being racist. (Discussion closed)
obama hates black people.
Municipalities continue to tighten their belts as a result of decreasing tax revenues
And higher tax rates may have something to do with decreasing tax revenues, but making things “fair” is more important to Obama, according to what he told Charles Gibson, proving Obama is an economic dunce
How does their employability quotient relate to those with better employment rates?
How is employment among while males over 50, I wonder?
Wah .....wah .......WAH!
That’s just RACIEST!
I bet George Bush did this?? (Along with all the Crackers)
Prison records, little education, little skills, unimpressive work histories can’t have anything to do with the issue.
AMEN
More than half of urban blacks never graduate from high school. Is White America responsible for that? I suppose Lyndon Johnson and his damnable social programs can be held culpable for the creation of a perpetual underclass. Still, one can’t help but be saddened by serial illegitimacy and homes without fathers, and schools where teachers labor in vain to teach. However, the inner city’s problems will never be resolved by Whitey. It is a Black problem and will remain so.
Hope & Change. African Americans (AA) are pimped and pawned by poverty pimps like Obama, Sharpton, Jackson, Wright, Van Jones and Farrakhan.
If you want African American “genocide” go to Obama’s Chicago where blacks live in govt apts owned by Obama pals getting tens of millions in $$ from Uncle Sam while the apts are dumps. Chicago crime is off the charts. The city is broke and corrupt and AA in Chicago pay 10.5% in sales tax.
Ditto every other liberal city like Newark, Detroit, Camden and emerging Atlanta.
Maybe it's the double citizenship that's doing it.
Enocuraged by rap music and the “gangsta” culture. The only thing worse is dumb suburban white kids trying to emulate the ghetto to “keep it real.”
We should ask why Zero favors brown people over black people.
Blacks are over-represented in the Federal workforce in at least some departments. I’d love to see an in depth study of this affirmative action gone berserk-—>>
http://www.adversity.net/fed_stats/OPM2007/001_blacksFY2006.htm
BTW Hispanics tend to be under represented in the Federal workforce
Rezko like;
Watchdog group calls for investigation of Adolfo Carrion, Bronx pres. tapped as Obama’s urban czar
The News’ reported numerous developers made tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations to Carrión around the same time he was considering approving their projects in the Bronx.
Carrión also hired an architect for one of the biggest projects to design a renovation of his home. The job was complete in February 2007, but Carrión has not paid the architect.
The White House has repeatedly declined to comment on the News’ findings except to say Carrión should pay the bill, which is slightly over $3,600.
Crew asked Holder “to initiate an immediate investigation into pay-to-play allegations” outlined in The News.
“It appears Mr. Carrión routinely approved development projects in exchange for campaign contributions,” Sloan said.
“In addition, Mr. Carrión personally benefitted by accepting free design work from an architect who needed his official assistance. This is exactly the kind of conduct that makes Americans skeptical of our politicians.”
How’s that minimum wage workin’ for those who don’t have jobs?
I beg to differ. The types of employment opportunities most desired by inner city folks are not usually of a legal nature.
It really is sad. I sometimes am embarrassed at the lack of people’s ability to speak ‘normal’ English, like it’s either a Hispanic accent or a ‘hood’ Ebonics rap chant. I think a lot of people who employ people are looking for someone that doesn’t use the baggy jeans or the pierced look. Yet, it’s this culture of RAP that most African American youth are attracted to... Go figure.
Voting for Bozo was disproportionately higher among blacks also, so I guess they have them selves to blame for being out of work.
The traits you mentioned place blacks in competition with immigrants (legal and otherwise) for the same menial jobs. And the immigrants tend to have a stronger work ethic and without the sense of entitlement present in far too many blacks
Note that the brothas are pimpin out their women here? Wazzup with that?
if blacks thought 0bama would help them .. just because they are black...
they should realize he did squat for his own brother, who is living in a hut on $12 a YEAR
and a higher preference to be a ward of the gov’t.
Do you know that Louis Farrakhan has contracts with the federal government to provide security for many of the 'projects'?
In the rate of job loss?
What a nothing statement. All job loss curves follow something like a parabola: the low-hanging fruit goes first. It's only late on that the critical staff are lost.
A cut in the rate of job loss would happen because its a parabola, not because of anything the Government did.
http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/indicators/1HighSchoolDropout.cfm
“Black and Hispanic youth are more likely than non-Hispanic whites to drop out of high school. In 2005, 6 percent of non-Hispanic whites ages 16 to 24 were not enrolled in school and had not completed high school, compared with 11 percent of blacks and 23 percent of Hispanics. The high rate for Hispanics is in part the result of the high proportion of immigrants in this age group who never attended school in the U.S.9 Asian youth, with a dropout rate of 3 percent, had the lowest dropout rate among all racial and ethnic groups in 2005. “
They know darned well they don’t have to work, so they don’t. I don’t see anything surprising about this at all.
“There are simply too many Americans seeking work.”
What an astounding “lament!!” Especially on the part of a Marxist administration doing everything in its power to destroy the ability/desire of American business to create employment.
Bring in another few million Somalis, Palestinians and Kenyans and make sure large sections of the southern border stay wide open - that should help.
/sarcasm off/
AFRO Staff = RACISTS & shakedown con man
Chairman of the Board/Publisher
John J. Oliver Jr.
“served on diversity oversight committees for Coors and Texaco corporations”
“became a staff lawyer for a Rockville, Maryland, arm of the General Electric corporation”
Executive Assistant
Takeia Hinton
410-554-8222
thinton@afro.com
Executive Editor
Talibah Chikwendu
410-554-8251
editor@afro.com
Washington Bureau Chief
Zenitha Prince
202-332-0080
dceditor@afro.com
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“In 1996 Oliver penned for Afro-American readers a vivid account of a personal experience that showed why a paper that reported firsthand on racial discrimination in the community was still a vital need. After running a red light, Oliver was pulled over by Baltimore police. With that infraction compounded by several other minor ones (Oliver’s license had expired, and he wasn’t wearing a seat belt), Oliver was placed under arrest and spent eight hours in Baltimore’s central lockup.”
Doesn’t that sound like discrimination to you?! /s
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I wonder what would happen if someone started the WHITEY newspaper?! /s
Drug histories, low FICO scores, and unusually high High School drop-out rates don't have anything to do with it either. It's all racism.
White people do have an advantage - when we fail at something it’s OUR FAULT - there’s no racial group we can blame. And in many ways, that’s better...
To tired from playing midnight basketball to go for interviews I guess.
yo’ p’ay mi’nigh’ basseh’ball ?
“More than half of urban blacks never graduate from high school. Is White America responsible for that? I suppose Lyndon Johnson and his damnable social programs can be held culpable for the creation of a perpetual underclass. Still, one can’t help but be saddened by serial illegitimacy and homes without fathers, and schools where teachers labor in vain to teach. However, the inner city’s problems will never be resolved by Whitey. It is a Black problem and will remain so.”
Even with that being the case, one can still become President.
“BTW Hispanics tend to be under represented in the Federal workforce”
Don’t hold your breath. I’m sure forces are at work riught now, to remedy this inequity.
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