When are people going to associate the black unemployment rate with their horrendous H.S. graudation rates. It goes hand in hand. Don’t cry me a river over this!
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Those graduation rates are deceptive. Even if the black graduation rate is 55%, many of those kids get to college and are seriously deficient in math and English language skills. I’d estimate that only about 60% of those on that 55% are functionally literate, so that means that less than one third of black students who were supposed to graduate this past spring are actually equipped to be productive members of society. Many of these people are not looking for jobs, so while the official black unemployment rate may be at 16%, their unemployable rate is probably near 35%, and going up every year.
I actually just googles the black high school graduation rate and it is 47%, not 55%.So the stats I mentioned in my previous post are even worse.