The worst reversal for African Americans in the labor market for over 25 years.
"African Americans tend to look for jobs in different ways than other groups do. This is because many people get their jobs through personal contact, and African Americans may not be able to utilize those kinds of connections as much as whites, and to some extent, Latinos do."
| This quote from economist Margaret Simms, the vice president of programs at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, in Cliff Hocker's Black Enterprise article "Study: Blacks Stay Unemployed Longer" leaped out at us.
The other leaping item was last month's National Urban League Institute for Opportunity and Equality's quarterly jobs report (366 KB in Microsoft Word .DOC format) research analyst Cheryl Hill Lee and director William E. Spriggs, Ph.D
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