Lowest Ever Black Jobless Rate Is Still Twice That of Whites
- 6 years ago
Lowest Ever Black Jobless Rate Is Still Twice That of Whites
“You had a white-owned company with white leadership saying to people we are doing the right thing,” said Mr. King, the Summit Academy leader.
“I was working twice as hard as the next guy by me, and thinking five times faster than him just to stay afloat,” Mr. Parrish said.
“If we can’t even answer the ‘why,’ we can’t hope to design policy solutions to close those gaps,” Mr. Kashkari said.
Even at the low of 6.8 percent recorded in December — it climbed back to 7.7 percent in January
— the unemployment level for black Americans would qualify as a near crisis for whites.
The black unemployment rate there went from 23.5 percent in 2011 to 7.5 percent last month but remained at more than twice the rate for whites.
“It’s not microwaveable,” said Louis King, who runs a training program in Minnesota
that aims to put minority workers into construction and health care careers.
The company pushed trade unions to diversify their ranks
and told its subcontractors “they weren’t going to get our business if they didn’t pull their weight,” Mr. Mortenson said.
“You had a white-owned company with white leadership saying to people we are doing the right thing,” said Mr. King, the Summit Academy leader.
“I was working twice as hard as the next guy by me, and thinking five times faster than him just to stay afloat,” Mr. Parrish said.
“If we can’t even answer the ‘why,’ we can’t hope to design policy solutions to close those gaps,” Mr. Kashkari said.
Even at the low of 6.8 percent recorded in December — it climbed back to 7.7 percent in January
— the unemployment level for black Americans would qualify as a near crisis for whites.
The black unemployment rate there went from 23.5 percent in 2011 to 7.5 percent last month but remained at more than twice the rate for whites.
“It’s not microwaveable,” said Louis King, who runs a training program in Minnesota
that aims to put minority workers into construction and health care careers.
The company pushed trade unions to diversify their ranks
and told its subcontractors “they weren’t going to get our business if they didn’t pull their weight,” Mr. Mortenson said.