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“While ‘too big to fail’ corporations went into the bail-out emergency room and recovered to break earnings and stock market records, most Americans have been left in ICU with multiple diagnoses of unemployment, underemployment, home losses and foreclosures, low or no savings and retirement accounts, credit denials, cuts in education and school funding—and the list of maladies continues.” – Marc H. Morial, President & CEO, National Urban League

I’m reading some sobering statistics about how African-Americans are disproportionately unemployed, underemployed and losing ground to whites – and now Latinos — on a national income scale.

Marc Morial, President of the National Urban League, calls it a “crisis” for black America.

He is not exaggerating.

In the National Urban League’s 38th annual “State of Black America” report titled, “One Nation Underemployed: Jobs Rebuild America,” the study focuses on the income disparity between Blacks, whites and Latinos, and how urban communities are suffering from severe economic hardships.

The report said African-Americans are twice as likely as whites to be unemployed. According to the report’s numbers, 13.1 percent of African-Americans are unemployed compared to 6.5 percent of whites and 9.1 percent of Latinos.

“We’re focusing on unemployment, under-employment and the economic crisis that black America faces,” Morial said in an interview with BlackAmericaWeb.com.

“This year,” Morial said, “the report also includes some deep statistical information about the income disparity between Blacks, whites and Latinos and the unemployment disparity between Blacks, whites and Latinos in American cities.”

Morial said it’s been 50 years since President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” and today, the SOBA Report reveals the widening inequality gap between the nation’s richest and poorest citizens.

Here is one critical finding: White unemployment is back down to 6% while the Black unemployment rate remains at12%.

ANALYSIS: Urban League Report Shows Blacks Losing Ground to Whites and Hispanics  was originally published on blackamericaweb.com

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