
The unemployment rate among black teens was more than six times higher than the national average, and nearly double the overall teen unemployment rate last month, according to data released Friday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
by Caroline May2 Oct 2015, 9:45 AM PST0

Donald Trump can credit much of his meteoric rise to the top of the Republican presidential field to his willingness to air out the dirty laundry of illegal immigration, simultaneously embarrassing both the Republican establishment and the civil rights community.
by Jerome Hudson16 Sep 2015, 12:41 PM PST0

In August, the Obama administration fined a Nebraska $200,000 and demanded they pay “uncapped” backpay to foreign workers against which they discriminated, after the company asked them to provide proof of their legal status.
by Katie McHugh9 Sep 2015, 6:01 AM PST0

Flamboyant YouTube stars, and perhaps Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s biggest supporters, Lynette “Diamond” Hardaway and Rochelle “Silk” Richardson—a.k.a the “Stump for Trump” girls—have turned the political world on its head.
by Jerome Hudson30 Aug 2015, 8:55 PM PST0

Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said youth unemployment is a “national tragedy,” and “It is beyond comprehension that we, as a nation, have not focused attention on the fact that millions of young people are unable to find work and begin their careers in a productive economy.”
by Dan Riehl8 Jun 2015, 6:38 PM PST0

Gallup explains its poll results in terms of an “improving U.S. job market,” at a time when a record 93,194,000 Americans were not in the labor force in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In addition, though Gallup shows a 3.5 percent decrease in the percentage of blacks struggling to afford food, data released Friday by the BLS shows that the unemployment rate for African Americans was nearly twice the national average, and more than double the unemployment rate for whites last month.
by Dr. Susan Berry7 Jun 2015, 12:30 PM PST0

The New York Times asserts that thousands of blacks who once had government union jobs now don’t, and some of the primary reasons for this unemployment are “strong anti-government and anti-tax sentiment” as well as attempts by Republicans to weaken public sector unions.
by Dr. Susan Berry25 May 2015, 11:03 AM PST0