Minimum rate between January 2007 and May 2015: 23.1% in April 2015 Maximum Rate: 57.2% in June 2013 Source: BLS http://beta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/LNU04000019 Unemployment Rates – 16-19 yrs. Black or African American Men Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Black men 16-19 Unemployment Rates 1972-2014, Series Id: LNU04000019 Data are not seasonally adjusted [NSA].
by Trudy Goldberg, Chair, National Jobs for All Coalition Another strategy to reduce unemployment is to reduce work time. This can be done by decreasing the length of the work day or increasing the number of vacation days. This strategy has been proposed as a means of dealing with chronic unemployment or of reducing mass… Read More Supply-Side Measures: Reduced Work Time
A COALITION REPRINT: December, 1996 by Helen Lachs Ginsburg, Economics, Emerita, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York; author, Full Employment and Public Policy: The United States and Sweden.  The author wishes to thank Al Burke for his help. Until recently, full employment was the highest priority of Swedish society and of the… Read More Sweden: Fall from Grace*
Summary of Paper prepared for the Policy Integration Department International Labour Office Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg Professor of Social Work Adelphi University School of Social Work, Chair, National Jobs for All Coalition Helen Lachs Ginsburg Professor Emerita of Economics Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Publications co-chair, National Jobs for All Coalition July 30, 2002… Read More The Impact of the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 on Women’s Employment
Employment and Unemployment Among Youth BLS Unemployment 16-19, 1970-2015 Hispanic data are not seasonally adjusted. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/06/the-real-reason-that-young-people-cant-find-jobs/372514/ Unemployment rates of young black men [age 16 to 19] 1972 to the present College Enrollment and Work Activity of High School Graduates (Annual) BLS “Out of School, Out of Work . . . Out of Luck? NYC’s Disconnected… Read More Youth Unemployment
