Against the celebratory backdrop of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown versus Board of Education, a new labor market study finds that many of the nation’s African-American men face growing joblessness and year-round idleness problems.
The new report, titled “Trends in Black Male Joblessness and Year-Round Idleness: An Employment Crisis Ignored” and prepared for the Alternative Schools Network in Chicago, Ill., Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies and economist Andrew Sum analyzed both long-term and recent employment developments among the nation’s black males, finding that, since the era of Civil Rights some five decades back, African-American men have suffered a serious decline in labor force attachment and participation. [...]
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Why don't black men improve employability for themselves? I'm a liberal Democrat, but when it comes to Black men, I'm all for the "personal responsibilty" conservatives are so fond of talking about. I can't throw a lot of stats at you, probably can't make a coherent arguement, but, jeezaloo, if I meet one more brother who's been incarcerated, one more brother whose only assets are the gold teeth in his mouth, I will scream. All this pimp-thug-dl crap. Today's BM are no longer the hard-working, proud men I remember growing up. What became of them? I'd switch parties in an instant if it meant brothers would finally work it out. I dunno. (broad, sweeping generalizations are the views of one angry Black woman and may be for a limited time only.)
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