Unemployment

May 24 2011

Riverside County sees increase

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The number of children aged 5 to 9 dropped by 21 percent in Los Angeles County over the past decade, making the county a major contributor to a statewide decline in the population of young children, according to a USC analysis of census data released today.

"We are ground zero of the 'missing children' of California,'' according to study co-author Dowell Myers, a USC professor of urban planning and demography.

Mar 17 2011

In the face of wealth loss

There they go again. Don’t they know any better?

African Americans continue to be battered worse than any other minority group by the nation’s three-year-long, and-counting, economic crisis. In both stand-alone and comparative terms, from the top to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, they’ve suffered a severe loss of the little wealth they possessed, and have almost no protection against a future economic shock.

Mar 3 2011

Report details how

The official unemployment rate is 15.8 percent among Blacks and 13 percent among Latinos; Blacks earn only 57 cents for each dollar of White family income, Latinos earn 59 cents; and Blacks have only 10 cents of net wealth while Latinos have 12 cents to every dollar of net wealth that Whites have.

Feb 24 2011

Homegrown frustration compared to tide of Mideast revolt

[Editor’s Note: Although this story originates in the Inland Empire, the sentiments expressed are universal to America’s African American communities, and the studies and research just confirm something that most Black folk always felt.]

What would happen if 34.5 percent of White men did not have jobs? According to new United States Bureau of Labor statistics, joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old Black men has reached Great Depression proportions—more than three times the rate for the general U.S. population.

Nov 24 2010

Program offered at UCLA

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—With the national unemployment rate hovering around 10 percent, many recent veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are finding it increasingly difficult to compete for jobs in the civilian workforce. 
 
If they’re disabled, the task is even more daunting. However, some disabled vets are finding a way to create their own job opportunities through a unique business boot camp offered at colleges and universities around the country. 
 

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.