BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT MORE THAN TWICE AS HIGH AS WHITE UNEMPLOYMENT


job-fair-sign-AP The disparity is even more dramatic among African American teens whose unemployment rate is five times the national average and nearly twice as high as their white counterparts.

According the Bureau of Labor Statistics during the month of October the unemployment rate among African Americans was 9.2 percent. Among white Americans, however, the unemployment rate was 4.4 percent.

Meanwhile, the national average was 5.0 percent. And unemployment among Asian Americans was 3.5 percent and 6.3 percent among Latinos.

The employment situation among African American teens (ages 16-19) was 25.6 percent. Among white teens the unemployment rate was 13.8 percent and nationally and nationally teen unemployment was 15.9 percent.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/06/black-unemployment-twice-high-white-unemployment/

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