Posted on 12/15/2011 1:33:35 PM PST by mdittmar
The misery of U.S. joblessness has everyone’s attention, but in the African American community, high unemployment has been the norm for 50 years, in good times and bad.
A new report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is calling for federal intervention to break the cycle that has kept the jobless rate among African Americans at twice the rate among whites.
The three-part plan includes the creation of public-sector jobs, job training with job placement programs and wage subsidies for employers.
EPI urges federal implementation of the program in counties and metropolitan areas of 25,000 people or more that have suffered unemployment of 6 percent or more for the the past 10 years.
Says Algernon Austin, director of EPI’s Race, Ethnicity and the Economy program and the report’s author:
Our economy should be one in which everyone who wants to work can find a job.
Read more here.
Farm workers? Lettuce pickers? Oh wait! You have to be an illegal alien to do those jobs. The culture must change, and I don’t think that’s gonna happen. My ladyfriend and her ex, emigrated from Shanghai. Their daughter, the light of my life, was born here. She began college at 16, dual major, Bio-Medical Engineering , and Chemistry. Not a penny was spent by her parents on college. She even got grants for walkin’-around money! She had over 100 job offers before she’d even graduated! Try and find that desire for education in the inner cities. There are some kids who will succeed, but they’re rare. The “Culture” is a serious problem.
anyone reading the history of unions will know that they are as bad as any KKK group. when did they get so worried about race - when they stopped getting new white folks to feed their politcal action funds.
If it has been the norm for 50 years, in good times and bad, then how can federal intervention change it at all? It clearly has nothing to do with opportunity or the economy. Morons.
(Hint: the 800 lb elephant in this particular room is called "culture".)
Today, we rightly condemn such thinking as racist.
Now, I see that "in the African American community, high unemployment has been the norm for 50 years, in good times and bad."
What are we to do about it? The question itself is (or should be) offensive ... nevertheless, there is an answer:
"the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is calling for federal intervention to break the cycle that has kept the jobless rate among African Americans at twice the rate among whites."
Federal intervention, eh? Ummmm ... what, exactly, is the "Economic Policy Institute (EPI)" saying, here? Is it saying that African Americans cannot take care of themselves? That fed.gov must take care of them?
That sounds familiar ...
I detect the odour of racism coming from the "Economic Policy Institute (EPI)".
It smells like bullshit.
Can you say "CETA?" I knew you could....
“...but in the African American community, high unemployment has been the norm for 50 years, in good times and bad.”
Hmmm. What can I say that isn’t a ban offense? I’ll just say...
White man did it.
We’re all roughly equivalent.
The proof is in how every country in the World is “roughly equivalent.”
Norway and Zambia? Roughly equivalent. Norway has deadbeats and Zambia has go getters. Roughly equivalent, the difference isn’t really enough to even mention.
That’s my story.
“...62.5 percent of blacks would have had to move to achieve full black–white integration.”
I don’t even understand what those words mean.
What is “full black-white integration” and why is it so important? Is this some desirable state of being that we all asked the government to provide for us? Is anyone out there forcing polar bears and antelope together? Why not? Don’t we want full “polar bear antelope integration?”
These people remind of a petulant child playing with his two ant farms. He has a farm of red ants...and a farm of black ants. And he insists on them “playing” together...and if they won’t, he’ll kill them.
The girl from (via) Shanghai will do well in today’s economy. Unfortunately we have lots of people here not as smart as her. My pet plan is to offer inner city people incentives to disperse to the countryside to do agricultural work. Then who needs illegal aliens. Will never happen...but
A depression just might disperse people to the country to do any labor they can beg to do. But as of now cities are more and more becoming places where tax eaters live off the labor/taxes of workers and mock us while doing so. This will end one way or another. Maybe in large Brazilian style slums that get no Govt money but live by their wits
“The three-part plan includes the creation of public-sector jobs,” So the productive sector of society pays the government to provide ‘jobs’ for the unemployable...
“job training with job placement programs” Probably has some merit..but why not apprenticeships, on the job training, and the like? No redistribution required for those...
“and wage subsidies for employers.” So more faux economy...sectors that consume the productivity of others rather than creating value...
Surely you don’t think that is enough to pay for all the years of suffering and slavery do you? Do I really NEED a sarc tag?
“Then who needs illegal aliens.”
Gotta get rid of them first.
Oh, I think every living victim of American slavery deserves a million dollars. They’d have to be almost 150 years old, at this point. LOL
It’s time to pay of holder’s people for votes. Forgetabout whitey. Hopefully this pandering to Blacks will piss of Hispanics. It has in the past.
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