Marc H. Morial (To Be Equal#21) – “It’s been tough. Very tough. I’m figuring I’m not getting any job. I have no experience, and I can’t get any experience without getting any jobs.” 23-year-old Darrell Davis of Springfield, MA Darrell Davis is just one of hundreds of discouraged, long-term unemployed people we met during last […]
Black Jobs, Unemployment and Answers to these Pressing Problems
By Lazone Grays – It has been some time since I wrote about this issue and after watching clips of recent Black leaders I find it necessary to weigh in on this very important and pressing issue. I mean, there is the national perspective, but what about the local and state discussion on this very […]
Kansas City’s Green Impact Zone Launches War on Unemployment
By Marc H. Morial (To Be Equal#13) – In the great tradition of America’s global defense of democracy, our nation has now entered another foreign conflict to protect and improve the lives of innocent civilians. While we applaud the inclination to rescue people in peril around the world, we wonder why that same urgency does […]
How Many in Black America really are Unemployed?
By Charles “Chaz” Hobbs – While reminiscing about my undergraduate era as an Economics major (We all try to remember, back in the day!), I happened to be perusing the U.S. Department of Labor’s – Bureau of Labor Statistics – Monthly Employment Report in regards to the “Unemployment Rate”. As I conjured up those fond […]