Posted on 09/24/2011 10:08:28 PM PDT by Steelfish
Obama Urges Black Community To 'March With Me' Athena Jones September 24, 2011
Washington (CNN) -- While acknowledging the hard-hit black community and budding criticisms in its ranks, President Barack Obama said in a speech Saturday night to the Congressional Black Caucus that he wouldn't give up -- and urged members of the black community to join him to jump-start the still-sluggish economy.
"I expect all of you to march with me, and press on," Obama said. "... Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We've got work to do." The unemployment rate among African-Americans is 16.7%, nearly double the national average, while 40% of black children live in poverty.
Such facts have made fiscal reforms a priority for caucus members, some of whom -- most of them Democrats -- have criticized Obama for not doing enough on the issue.
They include Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California, who at a caucus "jobs' tour town hall" in Detroit this month described the unemployment rate among blacks "unconscionable." She said the strategy to fix it was unclear, adding that the caucus was "getting tired" of waiting for one. She questioned the president's decision to focus on the Midwest during a three-day jobs bus tour in August, stating that the 3 million who live in Iowa -- and are mostly white -- are roughly equal in number to the African-Americans who are out of work.
She suggested that Obama's administration seemed more keen to focus on that politically important state than on the black community. "Are the unemployed in the African-American community, including almost 45% of its youth, as important as the people of Iowa?" she asked in the statement she released ahead of the president's speech before a joint session of Congress in which he announced his jobs...
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You’re 100% correct, and they are fired when found unwilling to do a days work
The percentage of willing workers is disproportionately low in this particular “voting block”
From “Hope and Change!” to “Divide And Conquer!”
” She said the strategy to fix it was unclear, adding that the caucus was “getting tired” of waiting for one.”
My wife left a position doing medical transcription and insurance coding for a clinic in San Ysidro. They had to hire 5 replacements to keep up with the level of processing she could do alone. It’s not a legal or illegal issue. It’s a qualified or unqualified issue. Fix your screening/hiring process. There’s plenty of folks available.
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