Blacks hit hard by economy's punch

Joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions -- 34.5 percent in October, more than three times the rate for the general U.S. population. And last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Peter Daou, NewsRack (Recession), Washington Post

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3.9
by Derek Hawkins - Nov. 25, 2009

Doesn't quite have the level of sourcing that I'd want to see in a trend story but overall this is a must-read. Some of the statistics are staggering. Puts the idea of "recovery" in a troubling perspective.

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