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(Undated) — African Americans are bearing the brunt of the nation’s unemployment crisis. The “Washington Post” reports that the jobless rate for black men ages 16 to 24 was 34-point-five-percent in October, a number that equals black unemployment during the Great Depression. It’s also more than three times the percentage of the general population. For black women aged 16 to 24 the rate is 15-point-four-percent. Meanwhile, the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University reports that lower income white teens are more likely to find work before upper income blacks do. The Center finds that African Americans who graduate college experience joblessness at double the rate of white college grads.

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