President Obama Delivers Remarks on 50th Anniversary of March on Washington
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50 years after March on Washington, economic gap between blacks, whites persists
Watch the 50th Anniversary of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech LIVE Wednesday 11:30 a.m. ET From WashingtonPost: When President Obama takes the stage at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday to commemorate the 1963 March on Washington, he will symbolize a big part of the complicated story of the nation’s…
Wisconsin missing out on U.S. jobs gains
From JS: Wisconsin desperately needs new jobs. Alone among the 50 states, it has lost private-sector jobs for six straight months, raising the political and economic stakes of the next jobs report, due Thursday for the month of January. Even feeble job creation would bring a sense of relief to…
Can labor organize the unemployed?
From The Institute for Southern Studies: Department of Labor figures for December showed 13.1 million unemployed and actively looking for work, almost half of them for more than six months. Another 8.1 million were working part-time involuntarily, and 2.5 million were too discouraged to look for work. … Jobs with…
Black Male Employment in the Wake of the Great Recession
According to a recent study by the University of Wisconsin, the black male unemployment rate in the nation’s largest metro areas — places like Milwaukee, Detroit, and Buffalo — is more than 50%. From the study: A fact rich in symbolism and a telling indicator of the social and economic…