Hazel Trice Edney, NNPA Editor-in-Chief
- The day after presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama announced his historic victory, the monthly jobs report showed the African-American jobless rate as beng once again higher than all other racial groups.
At 9.7 percent, Black unemployment is almost five points above the White rate of 4.4 percent; three points above the Hispanic-American rate of 6.9 percent, and more than four points above the national average of 5.5 percent.
From joblessness to the overall economy to dilapidated and failing schools to the criminal justice system to health care, now that the primaries are over and Sen. Hillary Clinton has thrown her support behind Obama, African-Americans across the nation are looking to hear from Obama and Republican presidential nominee John McCain exactly how they will change the disparate social impacts on the Black community.
