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Black Unemployment is High But Steady
April 6th, 2009
The U.S. unemployment rate jumped to 8.5 percent in March as the economy lost 663,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported on Friday. But the Black unemployment rate remained relatively steady, dropping slightly from 13.4 percent to 13.3 percent. More than 5 million jobs have now been lost since the recession began in December 2007, and almost two-thirds (3.3 million) of the job losses took place in the last 5 months. The total number of unemployed persons increased to 13.2 million, the government said on Friday. The stable numbers among African Americans may mark a temporary reprieve or could indicate that unemployment is already so high in the Black community that the job crisis has already caused much of the harm before it reached the overall population. The Labor Department estimates that the first quarter unemployment rate for African Americans was 13.1 percent, higher than for any other racial or ethnic group. Last month, the government reported the Black unemployment rate for February reached the highest rate since June 1993. The Bureau of Labor Statistics maintains Black unemployment data back to 1972 on its Web site, and the records indicate that the rate reached its lowest level on record in April 2000 when it dropped to 7.0 percent, a figure still significantly higher than the 3.8 percent overall unemployment rate at the time.
We blacks are victims of are spending money on junk , we want to blame other people about that.
Jiverly Voong is really UMlaw and I shot all those people in upstate NY because I thought they were black criminals. Blacks commit 90% of the violent crime in the US even though you people only make up 13% of the US population. Go figure! You all need to get an education, take responsibiity and stop commiting crimes so you can become model citizens like Asian Americans. Obama is 1/2 black and 1/2 white. It’s the 1/2 white part that got him elected president because nobody would vote for an 100% black man. Black people have smaller brains and lower IQ’s in general according to statistical information. There is not GOD only the sun and the stars and the planets. Religion was created by men because black people needed something to believe in since they are so weak minded in general.
Black are lazy and look for handouts.
46% of inner city Black men between the ages of 16 and 62 are unemployed , too lazy to work I guess.
Thank goodness, I still got my stripping job.
THAT’S NOT THE REAL” UMLAW THE SQUID” SOME HICK TRYING TO BE HIM!
IT SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISING THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS OR BLACK PEOPLE HAVE THE HIGHEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN AMERIKKKA, BECAUSE INSPITE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S PRESENCE IN THE WHITE HOUSE(SHOULD BE THE BLACK HOUSE), RACISM IS AS AMERIKKKAN AS BASEBALL, MOM’S APPLE PIE, NRA, IMMORAL WARS IN OTHER DARK SKINNED PEOPLES COUNTRIES, & RACIST TALK SHOW RADIO PROGRAMS(RUSH LIMBAUGH & DON IMUS), & SCAPE GOATING. BOTTOM LINE, AS MY FATHER THE LATE WILLIAM PERRY BELL(GOD BLESS BOTH HIM & MY BEAUTIFUL MOTHER VIVIAN BROWN), ONCE TOLD ME THAT DURING AMERIKKKA’S DEPRESSION OF 1929, “ONLY WHITE PEOPLE WERE JUMPING OUT OF WINDOWS”. FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
WE DONT NEED JOBS HELL WE ALL REDDY DONE THE WORK WE THE ONES THAT BILT THIS COUNTRY NOW ITS TIME FOR US TO GET PAID WARES MY CHECK OBAMA
OBAMA ALL DAY
Sharonda you might not need a job but you sure need some more learning.
Its ashame that people still say things like that about my people because its not our fault that the country fell off because of that dummy that was in office before my man Obama got in office. I don’t know where you haters get your information from because I’m a black man and I’m not lazy at all I hit the pavement everyday putting in apps.an I get no feed back and why is that because these big company would rather pay a person who wasn’t born in this country less money than pay us americans the right money so we can support our families, we have kids to support. An yes we have black people who do our race wrong sometimes, but that’s not ALL black people because if you look at it this is our country because we build it from the ground up(know your history)or should I say his-story. So on that note Peace and Love to All people.
Now add in the rest of the prison population to the mix and watch those statistics triple.
I love how BET tries to always make a play on words to make it look better… ala ’steady’. Steady my ass! Unemployment is horrid, alarmingly high and not just amongst blacks. Unemployment has no race. It affects everyone.
who cares about a job. I just kick back, get my EBT card and doo doo all day
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I need to get a apartment with running water , man I be stinkin like do-do
Go Obama!!!
don’t get it twisted. white people always have been and still are the laziest mf people on planet earth. who else sits back and lets other people (sick people, pregnant women, very old people, little kids, etc…) work like dogs in all kinds of weather while they sit back on the porch in the shade and chill for 400 years. WHITE PEOPLE!
TRINA – DATS RITE SISTA DEM CRACKAS NERR DID A DAM THANG WE TDA ONES DAT BILT DIS COUNTRY NOW ITS TIME TO GET PAID
OBAMA ALL DAY
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