{"id":2601,"date":"2015-10-26T23:19:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T23:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/njfac.org\/wp2015101\/?page_id=2601"},"modified":"2015-11-23T04:00:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T04:00:57","slug":"groups-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/groups-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups at Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Populations at Risk of Unemployment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In good times as well as bad, the risk of unemployment is\u00a0much greater among minorities, young workers, and the disabled than among whites. In 2000, when\u00a0 unemployment was the lowest in 30 years, nearly 8% of African Americans were unemployed&#8211;nearly as high as the overall rate in 2009, when the problem\u00a0for the general population was\u00a0reaching crisis proportions. What is a crisis for the general population is an ongoing crisis for African Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Hispanics also experience high rates of unemployment, though not as severely as African Americans, but they are even more likely to be in low-wage work.<\/p>\n<p>The high unemployment suffered by\u00a0young workers is deeply discouraging at the beginning of their work lives, and words fail in attempting to describe the joblessness of black teens. Too many young American&#8211; of all races and ethnicities\u2014foresee a future without good jobs. Disabled people, despite\u00a0efforts in recent years to reduce barriers to their unemployment,\u00a0are very highly disadvantaged in the labor market.<\/p>\n<p>As disproportionate as is the risk of unemployment, the problem\u00a0is suffered by millions of white Americans. In fact, the number of unemployed whites is 56% higher than the number of unemployed blacks\u00a0and \u00a0Hispanics combined (October 2015).<\/p>\n<p>Groups at risk include:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/category\/faces-of-unemployment\/groups-at-risk\/african-americans\/\">African Americans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/jobs-and-job-security\/employment-of-people-who-are-disabled\/\">The Disabled<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/category\/faces-of-unemployment\/groups-at-risk\/55-and-older\/\">People 55 and older<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/category\/faces-of-unemployment\/groups-at-risk\/women\/\">Women<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/category\/faces-of-unemployment\/groups-at-risk\/youth\/\">Youth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Populations at Risk of Unemployment In good times as well as bad, the risk of unemployment is\u00a0much greater among minorities, young workers, and the disabled than among whites. In 2000, when\u00a0 unemployment was the lowest in 30 years, nearly 8% of African Americans were unemployed&#8211;nearly as high as the overall rate in 2009, when the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/groups-at-risk\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Groups at Risk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2601","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}