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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Thursday, 2 February 2012 [View all]xchrom
(108,903 posts)30. Replacing Factories With Jails: Just 44% of Milwaukee’s Black Men in Workforce
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/12647/replacing_factories_with_jails_just_44_of_milwaukees_black_males_in_workfor/
MILWAUKEEWisconsins economic problems are only deepening the political crisis for Gov. Scott Walker, already the target of a massive recall campaign that gathered 1.1 signatures from Wisconsinites.
Despite Walkers pledge to preside over the creation of 250,000 jobs by 2015, Wisconsin has lost jobs for the past six months as the rest of the country has added them, and job losses have totaled more than 35,000 since he signed his highly controversial state budget last June.
But there is a more specific economic (and social) crisis facing Milwaukee: Just 44.7 percent of African-American males are still part of the workforce, reflecting the long-term decimation and relocation of the citys industrial based and the lingering effects of the Great Recession.
Even for African-American males in their prime working years (25 to 54), only 52 percent were in the workforce. That took me aback, stated Marc Levine, author of the new study illuminating the appalling level of joblessness in the citys black community.
MILWAUKEEWisconsins economic problems are only deepening the political crisis for Gov. Scott Walker, already the target of a massive recall campaign that gathered 1.1 signatures from Wisconsinites.
Despite Walkers pledge to preside over the creation of 250,000 jobs by 2015, Wisconsin has lost jobs for the past six months as the rest of the country has added them, and job losses have totaled more than 35,000 since he signed his highly controversial state budget last June.
But there is a more specific economic (and social) crisis facing Milwaukee: Just 44.7 percent of African-American males are still part of the workforce, reflecting the long-term decimation and relocation of the citys industrial based and the lingering effects of the Great Recession.
Even for African-American males in their prime working years (25 to 54), only 52 percent were in the workforce. That took me aback, stated Marc Levine, author of the new study illuminating the appalling level of joblessness in the citys black community.
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We watched that last night. Our littlest one made a "pop-up" groundhog in school yesterday
Roland99
Feb 2012
#31
Not to mention the fact that its "product" is useless, pointless, and can be harmful
Demeter
Feb 2012
#21
Affinity fraud; Fleecing the flock: The big business of swindling people who trust you
Demeter
Feb 2012
#10
Yet More Mortgage Settlement Lies: Release Looks Broad, Not Narrow; Other States Screwed to Bribe CA
Demeter
Feb 2012
#13
Holder & Obama’s Propaganda “Belied by a Troublesome Little Thing Called Facts” By William K. Black
Demeter
Feb 2012
#14
Attorney General Champs, Chumps, and Eric Schneiderman By Abigail Caplovitz Field
Demeter
Feb 2012
#18
But, just think of how hard it is to raise a billion bucks in campaign contributions!
Fuddnik
Feb 2012
#20
Oil down 1% to $96.61/bbl. Gas prices here about $0.25 shy last summer's highs.
Roland99
Feb 2012
#33
Actually OBama is much like FDR, FDR had one advantage, a HUGE Democratic majority in Congress
happyslug
Feb 2012
#57
Obama's Democratic Congress was no where near as left wing as the Congresses of the 1930s
happyslug
Feb 2012
#59