This used to be a Joke...
World to End, Women and Minorities Hardest Hit.
now it's a news story....
Now, with Detroit reeling, many blacks find their economic well-being threatened.
By last month, nearly 20,000 African-American auto workers had lost jobs, a 13.9 percent decline in employment, since the recession began last December, according to government jobs data analyzed by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal Washington research firm. That compares with a 4.4 percent decline for all workers in manufacturing.
I'm not going to bother to link to the tenditious statistics. Figuring out the change of percentage bases is an undergrad exercise.
now it's a news story....
Now, with Detroit reeling, many blacks find their economic well-being threatened.
By last month, nearly 20,000 African-American auto workers had lost jobs, a 13.9 percent decline in employment, since the recession began last December, according to government jobs data analyzed by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal Washington research firm. That compares with a 4.4 percent decline for all workers in manufacturing.
I'm not going to bother to link to the tenditious statistics. Figuring out the change of percentage bases is an undergrad exercise.