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Bob Herbert - "Out of Sight"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

June 10, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist Out of Sight By BOB HERBERT NY Times When the dismal unemployment numbers were released on Friday (at the same time that oil prices were surging to record highs), I thought about the young people at the bottom of the employment ladder. Below the bottom, actually. A shudder went through the markets when the Labor Department reported that the official jobless rate had jumped one-half a percentage point in May to 5.5 percent ? the sharpest spike in 22 years. The young people I?m talking about wouldn?t have noticed. These are the teenagers and young adults ? roughly 16 to 24 years old ? who are not in school and basically have no hope of finding work. The bureaucrats compiling the official unemployment rate don?t even bother counting these young people...continue to full post

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