With black unemployment reaching historic levels, banks laying off tens of thousands and law school graduates waiting tables, why aren’t more African-Americans looking toward science, technology, engineering and math – the still-hiring careers known as STEM? The answer turns out to be a complex equation of self-doubt, stereotypes, discouragement and economics – and sometimes just [...]
As Congress weighs the Obama administration’s jobs package, RLJ Companies CEO Robert Johnson is pushing a proposal that he says marshals the capacity of the nation’s biggest companies to significantly reduce black unemployment. Johnson has dubbed his idea the “RLJ Rule.” It calls on Fortune 1000 companies to voluntarily consider a more diverse pool of [...]
Of all demographic groups in the United States, the black community has been hit hardest by the unemployment crisis. Indeed, the percentage of currently unemployed African Americans is more than double that of whites, comparing more closely in some cities to those of the Great Depression. In major cities like Detroit, Milwaukee and Minneapolis, black unemployment [...]
WASHINGTON — Bass Pro Shops, one of the leading retailers of outdoor gear, is being sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for allegedly discriminating against African American and Hispanic applicants in several of its stores, according to a suit filed Wednesday in Texas federal court. Describing the lawsuit as both “major” and “nationwide,” [...]
Walter Character — a self-described Atlanta family man, out-of-work African American and independent voter — spends a great deal of time consuming news that criticizes the Obama administration for ignoring blacks’ struggles, but said he doesn’t believe the president should shoulder the blame alone. In June, Character read about the spate of Republican presidential hopefuls who [...]
The leaders of the Tea Party Patriots group are out with target response to contentious remarks made by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) over the weekend regarding the coalition of conservative activists. “We’ve had Democrats calling American citizens ‘terrorists’ and ‘hostage takers,’ and now an elected Democratic representative says that we can ‘go straight to hell,’” Mark Meckler [...]
Wealth disparities between white households and black and Hispanic households are greater than they’ve been in the past 25 years, a new study from the Pew Research Center has found. The report, released Tuesday, shows that median wealth declined by 66 percent among Hispanic households between 2005 and 2009. For black households during the same time [...]
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