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Job losses hit black men hardest: Some 8 percent of black men in the US have lost their jobs since November 2007

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Job losses hit black men hardest: Some 8 percent of black men in the US have lost their jobs since November 2007, according to a recent study. By Patrik Jonsson | Staff writer/ March 15, 2009 edition and Yvonne Zipp | Correspondent Christian Science Monitor At a time when America has elected its first black president, more African-American men are losing jobs than at any time since World War II. No group has been hit harder by the downturn. Employment among black men has fallen 7.8 percent since November of 2007, according to a report by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. The trend is intimately tied to education, the report?s authors say. Black women ? who are twice as likely as black men to go to college ? have faced no net job losses...continue to full post

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