Black Chicagoans Used To Seeing The Economy’s Downside
Black folks in Obama’s hometown of Chicago, Illinois have little confusion when it comes to the state of the economy.
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With the national African-American unemployment rate at 16.7 percent, the highest since 1984, Chicago’s community of color is a dismal example.
“I know that our black men don’t have nowhere to fit,” says Chi-town native Orlando Chaff, who was out of work for 3 years before recently finding a job as a limo driver. “Too many of them standing around the house, standing on the block.”
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