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- Perhaps a higher rate of employment within certain segments of the population is a cultural thing that leans towards an anti-capitalist sentiment and believes in social justice forever being doled out via government entitlements.
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- Black unemployment is always higher and this economic environment has exacerbated that situation. But that does not make it right or fair. In addition, notwithstanding all the comments about blacks being less educated, the unemployment rate for black males WITH a college degree is higher than for white high school dropouts.
Employment discrimination is still a big piece of this. Studies as recent as 5 years ago still show that when faced with two comparable resumes, the one with the white sounding name gets interviewed statistically much more often than the one with the black sounding name.
Yes, as jobs moved out of the city, they moved to suburbs where blacks did not live (Of course that was before they subsequently moved out of the country in many cases). So if you want to follow that job, you have to have a good enough car to make the haul out there, or good enough credit to buy out there. But of course, how would you get the good credit, if you didn't have a job that paid enough to give you a financial cushion. - Reply to this comment
- The sad thing is, they will STILL vote for him...
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- Editgirl1 - While "LaQuisha" and "D'Mare" are hustling to get their resumes looked at, Asians, Africans, and Caribbeans are going by nicknames like Sam, Lee, and Sue and getting ahead.
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- This is only the reported figure; the real one that does count all the people out of work for over a year is too much to even tell!
Third World? We are beginning to grow our own. If we continue to make labor in other countries so cheap by letting their money be valued at only a fraction of our own (the rupee is 1/43 of our dollar), then who is going to hire anyone in the USA, at our labor costs? We need a single global monetary unit that is not bought and sold on monetary markets; this will take all the speculation out of commodity valuation and force countries to support their own populations; it will end the slavery that now makes our commodities so cheap and our labor so expensive. This is what our president should be pushing for. But of course the billionaires won't like it, because they will have to actually start to work for a living, instead of leveraging their wealth into huge profits because money has made labor so cheap in some places.
Not only charity begins at home, but responsibility begins there too; the responsibility to realize that the gamblers mentality of making it big is hurting a lot of innocent people. But do people even count anymore in America? I wonder? - Reply to this comment
- Obama never was qualfied for the position he is in. It's way above his pay grade as a community organizer. In a recent press conference, Obama used 'invest', 'invested', 'investing', 18 times to describe deficit spending. Folks, I don't know about you, but I am not all the impressed by someone with a Harvard Education.
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- Snaps for anyone one who can find official unemployment figures for Wilcox county AL at 27%.........I'm still waiting.
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- Asians, Arabs, & sub-continental Indians are minorities who don't have this problem...because they come from cultures that stress education. I know it's easier to blame "white society" for black people's problems, but welfare is kind of like a modern-day slavery that suggests you're not good enough to succeed...so the Democratic party has become dependent on making others dependent on them. To encourage freeloading on a national scale leaves little doubt why we're broke as a nation. We've gone from 'Sea to Shining Sea' to 'C to C-minus'.
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- Blacks & Hispanics are a minority of the population but receive the majority of welfare & handouts...why? There's a direct correlation between education & financial success, and blacks & hispanics are collectively less educated. This country has made it easier for these minorities to receive an education through grants & preferrential acceptance into colleges to keep the "diversity" image up to par...so perhaps blacks & hispanics should be more proactive in helping themselves succeed when they're being given every opportunity based on their minority status. Nah, that makes too much sense...I'm just a racist, I get it now.
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- I am a 69 year old white man and think that Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams have the answers but most blacks and democrats call them "Uncle Tom". Really sad.
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