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Originally Posted by Gust
(Post 2048394)
Actually it was G.W Bush who created the unemployment benefits for illegals,,, anyhoo. These stats are from the U.S Dept of Commerce, and you are right, the blacks have cornered the welfare market. Actually they haven't, I just wanted you to feel good for a moment.
Welfare Demographics
Percent of recipients who are white 38.8 %
Percent of recipients who are black 39.8 %
Percent of recipients who are Hispanic 15.7 %
Percent of recipients who are Asian 2.4 %
Percent of recipients who are Other 3.3 %
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It's interesting that Welfare is brought up without looking at who can get a job. Black people have historically had a unemployment rate at about 2x's the US White population as well as being "last hired, first fired" or not hired at all. I think the results are amazingly low for a people with 16% of their population unemployed, their youth barely employed and an unknown percentage "under" employed. And before you toss in because they're not looking Unemployment rates are based on active job seekers so no telling what the real rates are.
Unemployment rate
Blacks Whites Hispanics
15.8% 7.9% 11.5%
Periods of High Unemployment
In January 2007, the year the recession began, the unemployment rate for black workers was 7.9 percent, compared to 4.2 percent for Whites and 5.8 percent for Hispanics. By January 2009, the unemployment rates had climbed to 7.1 percent for Whites, 12.7 percent for Blacks and 10.0 percent for Hispanics. By the end of 2010, the unemployment rate for Blacks had risen more than for either Whites or Hispanics.
Unemployment for the nation peaked at 10 percent in October 2009, while the unemployment rate for Blacks continued to rise before peaking at 16.7 percent in August 2011 (Chart 1). In comparison, the unemployment rate for Whites peaked along with the national rate in October 2009 at 9.3 percent. Hispanic unemployment peaked at 13.1 percent in November 2010.
Across all races and ethnic groups, the unemployment rate for youth (aged 16-19) is much higher than that for adults. As Chart 2 illustrates, this is also true among Blacks. The unemployment rate for black youth reached a high of 49.1 percent in November 2009 and as of January 2012 had fallen to 38.5 percent. Not only has the unemployment rate remained high, but a large number of black teens are no longer in the labor force - either working or looking for work — which explains some of the drop in the unemployment rate. In 2007, black teens participated in the labor force at a rate of 30.3 percent. By 2011, that rate had declined to 24.9 percent. Labor force participation of black men and women aged 20-54 declined by 2.3 percentage points from 78.2 percent in 2007 to 75.9 percent in 2011, while participation among older black workers (aged 55 and older) increased by 1.3 percentage points — 35.3 percent in 2007 to 36.6 percent in 2011.
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