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Forget ‘Recession’: It’s a Depression for Urban Minorities
In These Times ^ | June 10 2010 | Art Levine

Posted on 06/10/2010 7:46:10 AM PDT by Brugmansian

Unemployment over 20% for Hispanics, African Americans in some cities, and 'jobless recovery' doesn't offer much hope

While economists wring their hands over the weak "recovery" underway, with new jobs in May mostly due to temporary Census hiring, an even starker crisis is playing out in urban areas across the country: There are near Depression-level unemployment rates for minorities in some metropolitan areas.

A new report, Uneven Pain, issued Wednesday by the liberal Economic Policy Institute, looks closely at the different unemployment rates for blacks, whites and Hispanics, based on 2009 data, and its findings are striking, as summed up by EPI: "Unemployment rates for nonwhite populations were particularly high in three cities: Providence had a Hispanic unemployment rate of 21.4% and Detroit and Minneapolis had African American unemployment rates of 20.9% and 20.4%, respectively."

Currently, the May unemployment rate was nearly 10% overall, but there were striking differences among the races: whites at 8.8 percent; blacks at 15.5 percent; and Hispanics, 12.4 percent. Worse, roughly one in four blacks and Hispanics are under-employed—they don't have the full-time jobs they want . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at inthesetimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: yellowjournalism
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To: NativeNewYorker

You forgot the “Great” Society too.


21 posted on 06/10/2010 8:11:04 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: Brugmansian

Well...Democrats....keep voting for the Plantation Masters


22 posted on 06/10/2010 8:16:29 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Destroy AMERICA.....Vote DEMOCRAT)
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To: Brugmansian
Not to make light of the difficult circumstances that a lot of people are facing, but . . .

Isn't it ALWAYS a "depression" for urban minorities in this country? I mean, aren't the unemployment rates for these groups substantially higher than average even in the best of times?

23 posted on 06/10/2010 8:39:03 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.")
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To: Terry Mross
They can thank the democrats for the economic pain they feel. It will only get worse when the Obama regime allows the Bush tax cuts to expire. The democrat dummies want to stimulate the economy by raising taxes and passing legislation that kills job creation. They must be members of Obama’s Kenyan School Of Economics.
24 posted on 06/10/2010 8:39:45 AM PDT by peeps36 (The White House Is Full Of Hole Pluggers. It's The Chicago Way)
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To: Alberta's Child

Many of the “Urban Minorities” are “unemployable”.


25 posted on 06/10/2010 8:42:11 AM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: Mr. Wright

“Just saw a report on a reliable news source that indicated 92 percent of blacks continue to strongly support Hussein Obama.
Amazing is it not?”

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Not at all.

After all, “progressive”, self-hating whites in the dominant media are continually telling them that their plight is completely the result of bigoted caucasians. Not them, and their friends of course, but THOSE OTHER whites: White conservative Christians out in fly-over land.


26 posted on 06/10/2010 8:42:31 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: Brugmansian

they don’t seem to care, so long as they can still line up somewhere for a piece of Obama’s stash


27 posted on 06/10/2010 8:44:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Brugmansian

unless they sell dope or leave the hood to find work, it’s always a depression...in a war zone


28 posted on 06/10/2010 8:44:44 AM PDT by wardaddy (I am not in favor of practical endorsements in primaries, endorse the conservative please)
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To: EyeGuy

The observation is right on target.


29 posted on 06/10/2010 8:45:51 AM PDT by Mr. Wright
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To: Brugmansian
So much for hope and change.

Some people think that Obama is screwing up the economy on purpose. I don't know either way but, if he is, he's hurting blacks a lot more than Reagan and the two Bushes did.

30 posted on 06/10/2010 8:52:47 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: Brugmansian; All
Hussein still has a 91% approval rating among blacks, according to Gallup.

Translation: makes no difference. The unemployment rate could be 75%, and he'd still hold sway. Sad, but true.

The REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PARTY needs to be providing a platform for outstanding conservatives out there like Star Parker, Tim Scott, Thomas Sowell, Lloyd Marcus, and Frances Rice, among others.

I know Sowell gets a weekly column, but these good people need to be brought together and show their fellow African Americans that being black DOESN'T MEAN SUPPORTING HUSSEIN!

31 posted on 06/10/2010 9:00:54 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Recovering_Democrat

He’s seen a poking a stick in the eye of the man. They’ve given up hope and take pleasure in Obama messing up others, perhaps making them as miserable as they are. That is the only explaination.


32 posted on 06/10/2010 9:05:00 AM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: Brugmansian
Even the centrist New York Times columnist David Leonhardt concedes the Democrats won't be pushing for massive jobs creation even as unemployment remains the top concern


LOL right what kind of centrist works at the NY Slimes?

33 posted on 06/10/2010 10:12:18 AM PDT by Nat Turner (Escaped from NY in 1983 and not ever going back....)
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To: Brugmansian

Kill the white man!


34 posted on 06/10/2010 10:21:29 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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