Secretary of Labor Addresses Unemployment in Communities of Color
June 12, 2011 by Brian O. Brown
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The unemployment rate for black workers remains unacceptably high at 16.2%. African American workers are more likely to work in the public sector than either white or Latino workers, so they’ve faced more of the burden of the continuing loss of state and local government jobs. Black employment took the largest hit in manufacturing, financial activities, wholesale/retail trade, transportation/warehousing, and construction.
Read the blog post “A Wider View” by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis
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