San Francisco leads the country in African-American employment disparity

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | March 6, 2017

[artichokegrower]

San Francisco may no longer be one of the nation's top-ranked cities for income disparity, but a study released last week by the Brookings Institution painted a stark picture of the job landscape for black San Franciscans, as compared to the city as a whole.

The study, a comparative index of employment among 18-to-64-year-olds in localities with more than 500,000 people, indexed the highest and lowest national employment rates by region, and then compared employment rates in those same regions by race—white, black, Latino and Asian.

While San Francisco has the ninth-highest general employment rate in the country (79 percent), it also has the highest employment disparity between blacks and whites in the country.

[artichokegrower]

The only area with a lower percentage of employed working-age black people than San Francisco was Detroit—which has an employment rate for blacks of 50 percent. However, Detroit's general employment rate is 51 percent, meaning that the racial disparity for blacks is essentially nil.

Wrong headline. Should read:

Socialism Works Detroit Has Eliminated Income Inequality

[marktwain]

The concept of doing all these comparisons, using race as a marker, is meaninless when the government should be colorblind in its administration.

But, of course, the government is *not* colorblind. There are certain favored groups, which are just about everyone except white, straight, Christian, men.

[dblshot]

IN SF blacks are just another minority and not one of the trendier ones.

[dowcaet]

Notice how delicately the SF Chronicle phrased that headline. To the rest of us it means “San Francisco Doesn’t Hire Blacks”. Expect BLM, Jesse, Al, and the rest of the civil rights shakedown crew to be paying a visit to the city by the bay, and getting a bunch of concessions from mayor Ed Lee and the rest of the SF city government.

[miss marmelstein]

I wonder where DC stands.

[ßuddaßudd]

What! the Chiney not hiring blacks??
l ol

[PeterPrinciple]

Lets see the info on welfare disparity................

[BestPresidentEver]

That means of the five Black guys left in SF three are unemployed.