OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT: 5.4%* White 4.7% African American 9.6% Hispanic 6.9% Asian** 4.4% Persons with a disability** 10.0% Men 20 years and over 5.0% Women 20 years and over 4.9% Teens (16-19 years) 17.1% Black teens 27.5% Officially unemployed 8.5 million from the U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS *If the… Read More Current Rate: April 2015 Unemployment Data
The March for Jobs and Freedom: From 1963 to 2013 NPQ’s Economic Progress Quiz 28 August 2013 The March for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 had a very strong emphasis on jobs and economic equality. As recounted by John Branston at the Memphis CityBeat [8/20/2013], the marchers demanded “a massive federal program to train and… Read More From 1963 to 2013: NPQ’s Economic Progress Quiz
New York Times, November 20, 2012 …. Nearly six million factory jobs, almost a third of the entire manufacturing industry, have disappeared since 2000. And while many of these jobs were lost to competition with low-wage countries, even more vanished because of computer-driven machinery that can do the work of 10, or in some cases,… Read More Skills Don’t Pay the Bills by Adam Davidson
THE UNEMPLOYED SPEAK* 1. Jack was laid off after 17 years as a mechanic when his plant was relocated in Mexico. Unable to find a comparable job, Jack is working at Walmart at a fraction of his previous wage. Answer: Jack is a casualty of unemployment, but he is counted as employed, despite his downgrading.… Read More Can You Count the Unemployed? an NJFAC Quiz
September 25, 2000 FIVE YEARS CLOSER TO ECONOMIC JUSTICE: A Proposal by the National Jobs for All Coalition Preamble Imagine a society without poverty. Imagine a society in which all people who want and need to work have jobs that enable them to earn a living adequate for health and well-being. Imagine a society in… Read More Five Years Closer to Economic Justice: A Proposal to the National Council of Churches of Christ, U.S. A.
