⑤As Public Sector Sheds Jobs, Blacks Are Hit Hardest

A black man, Don Buckley lost his job ― driving a Chicago bus almost two years ago and has been looking for work ever since, even as other municipal bus drivers around the country are being given up. When he was 34 years old, his two daughters and his fiancée have moved into the basement of his mother's house. He has had to delay his marriage...

He is one of tens of thousands of once solidly middle-class African-American government workers — bus drivers in Chicago, police officers and firefighters in Cleveland, nurses and doctors in Florida — who have been laid off since the recession ended in June 2009.

 Jobless rates among blacks have consistently been about double those of whites. In October, the black unemployment rate was 15.1 percent, in opposition to 8 percent for whites. Last summer, the black unemployment rate hit 16.7 percent, its highest level since 1984.

Such job losses have blunted gains made in employment and wealth during the previous decade and undermined the stability of neighborhoods where there are now fewer black professionals who own homes or who get up every morning to go to work.

 Blacks unjust employment is a serious ploblem. They fought unreasonable discrimination for many years. I think that different race doesn’t connect to discrimination and they are troubled very much. Race is human rights, and it is secured.. So, I insist that abolition for discrimination puts into practice.

New York Times

As Public Sector Sheds Jobs, Blacks Are Hit Hardest

By TIMOTHY WHLLIAMS

Published: November 28, 2011