Report says blacks, Latinos losing economic ground

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By JESSE J. HOLLAND

WASHINGTON (AP) - African-Americans and Latinos are losing economic ground when compared with whites in the areas of employment and income as the United States pulls itself out of the Great Recession, the latest State of Black America report from the National Urban League says.

The annual report, called "One Nation Underemployed: Jobs Rebuild America," noted that the underemployment rate for African-American workers was 20.5 percent, compared with 18.4 percent for Hispanic workers and 11.8 percent for white workers. Underemployment is defined as those who are jobless or working part-time jobs but desiring full-time work.

The report also said African-Americans are twice as likely as whites to be unemployed. The unemployment rate for blacks was 12 percent in February, compared with 5.8 percent for whites.

"Many Americans are being left behind, and that includes African-Americans and Latinos who are being disproportionately left behind by the job creation that we see," National Urban League President Marc Morial said.

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DUH! In a unionized job ALL minorities get the same pay for the same work and make more than non-unionized workers: http://www.aflcio.org/Learn-About-Unions/What-Unions-Do/The-Union-Difference



This Aug. 28, 2013 file photo shows National Urban League President Marc Morial speaking at the Let Freedom Ring ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. While unemployment has been a major impediment to African Americans' economic progress, underemployment is a bigger obstacle for them than it is for whites or Hispanics, the National Urban League says in its latest State of Black America report. The annual report, called “One Nation Underemployed: Jobs Rebuild America,” noted that African Americans are twice as likely as whites to be unemployed. The unemployment rate for blacks was 12 percent in February, compared to 5.8 percent for whites. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

[upaloopa]

1. When I was growing up African Americans where I lived in

Ohio could not join the electrical workers union. The way you got into the union was to be sponsored by a current union member. The union my neighbor belonged to was all White when he offered to sponsor me. He told me the reason for sponsorship. I didn't join for that reason. That was in 1968.

[dotymed]

3. Thankfully I do not know of any Unions who discriminate like that anymore.

That was over 40 years ago and a very sickening ethos was (and still is in many ways) righteously being fought against.
I know that the Carpenters Union is still actively hiring Spanish speaking individuals as organizers, especially in Oh.
Sadly, I do not believe that America is recovering from "the great recession" (Depression), the money keeps flowing hugely disproportionately "upward" to the already obscenely wealthy.
Some trade Unions are desperately seeking skilled trades people in the North and Midwest though.
It really depresses me that I still get Union job offers from In.,Oh., and Canada.
I was forced to retire due to my disability.I have had 2 Union job offers in the last month from In. and Oh.
Last year I had a few offers from Canada.
Inevitably, when I get these offers (to leave poverty in the South), I contact my Dr.'s (in vain) hoping for anything that will allow me to return to the workforce.
I never imagined this life for myself or family.

[corkhead]

2. I know technically this qualifies as "Breaking News", but this isn't breaking news.

99+% of us have for 30+ years

[onehandle]

4. Pretty sure the 99% is losing ground. nt

[Zorra]

5. Most of the 99% are losing income.

Lots of graphs:

The Wealth Gap in America Is Growing, Too

It is, by now, well known that income inequality has increased in the United States. The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s overall income in 2012, the highest proportion recorded in a century of government record keeping.

But wealth inequality has been increasing too, as a new study by Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics and Gabriel Zucman of the University of California, Berkeley, shows. In a preliminary report, Mr. Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, also of Berkeley, find that at the very top, wealth is distributed as unevenly as it was in the early 20th century. And the wealthiest 0.1 percent, and especially the 0.01 percent, have left the rest of the 1 percent in the dust.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/the-wealth-gap-is-growing-too/