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June 15, 2015
How do edits work these days?
So I know that some edits don't show up with the old-style "edit history". I also have seen the edit history still on some posts. I vaguely recall a buzz around the changes but I never quite figured out what they are. Is it just a certain time window where edits aren't marked? Is there an explanation somewhere? Thanks!
June 13, 2015
Let me tell you why this is so important. The Economic Policy Institute studied the real unemployment figures for recent high school graduates aged 1720, including people who have given up looking for work and those who are working part-time but seek full-time employment. They are devastating. More than one third of white and Hispanic youth (33.8 and 36.1 percent, respectively) are looking for work. Shockingly, so are more than half of African-Americans (51.3 percent).
I want to emphasize that:
When you look at the real job figures, more than 50 percent of young African-Americans are looking for work.
More at link
Bernie Sanders: Youth Unemployment and Dr. King’s Dream
By Senator Bernie Sanders
Many years ago I was honored to be among those who marched on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I was there for his famous I Have a Dream speech, and I heard him say that African-Americans live on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
Dr. King taught us that the struggle for justice is economic, as well as social and legal. As he said in Memphis, a few short weeks before his death:
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Dr. King taught us that the struggle for justice is economic, as well as social and legal. As he said in Memphis, a few short weeks before his death:
Our struggle is for genuine equality, which means economic equality. For we know now that it isnt enough to integrate lunch counters. What does it profit a man to be able to eat at an integrated lunch counter if he doesnt have enough money to buy a hamburger?
Let me tell you why this is so important. The Economic Policy Institute studied the real unemployment figures for recent high school graduates aged 1720, including people who have given up looking for work and those who are working part-time but seek full-time employment. They are devastating. More than one third of white and Hispanic youth (33.8 and 36.1 percent, respectively) are looking for work. Shockingly, so are more than half of African-Americans (51.3 percent).
I want to emphasize that:
When you look at the real job figures, more than 50 percent of young African-Americans are looking for work.
More at link
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