Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts? Try 95 Percent
America[n] famil[ies have] not obtained a dollar [in] additional income since 2000, either in our country or in our state. Workers’ wages the last six years have been flat to negative. Almost nobody is doing better except high-level CEOs and people at the higher end of the finance sector. So you can’t say this is affluence. It’s not increased affluence. It’s diminished jobs.
Among high school grads who graduated from high school in the last three years — we do a separate survey of them the fall after graduation — 45 percent of them held a job, the lowest in the last 50 years we’ve been collecting this data. And to make it worse, of that 45 percent, only half of them were able to get a full-time job. Only one in five young high school grads, not in college, [is] working full-time.
Yes. And, if you happen to be a young black male, we’re talking 90. Ninety percent are not working full-time.
No, seriously. Bammie has done less for his people than the Bushes. Even Clinton.