African-Americans

Koch-Funded Think Tanks Are Lobbying to Send Workers to Their Deaths

Leave a Comment / Essential Worker / By max cyril

It’s no mystery what will happen if we rush to reopen the economy and send people back to work before epidemiologists say it is safe to do so. A model produced in consultation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in March projected a worst-case scenario of 1.7 million Americans killed. Another estimate by the Imperial College …

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Trump’s Bid to Pit Black and Brown Workers Against Each Other

Leave a Comment / immigration / By max cyril

President Trump has resurrected an old canard in his effort to sell a new effort to restrict immigration into the United States. The legislation he backs, he said at a White House ceremony, was necessary in part to protect “minority workers competing for jobs against brand-new arrivals” under the current immigration system. This theme is a …

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The Federal Reserve and Black Unemployment

Leave a Comment / unemployment / By max cyril

The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) that determines U.S. monetary policy met in July. Its job is to weigh the state of the American economy, both the labor market and inflationary pressures to set policy. In an interesting note, its discussion of the labor market explicitly noted the condition of the African American and …

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African-American Unemployment Rate Was ‘Virtually Unchanged’ In 2011

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

As 2011 progressed, Americans overall saw a slowly decreasing unemployment rate, ticking down from 9.1 percent in January to 8.5 percent in December. However, a new report from UC Berkeley reveals that the unemployment rate for African Americans stayed almost exactly the same. In January of 2011, the unemployment rate for African Americans stood at 15.7 percent. …

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African-Americans

Koch-Funded Think Tanks Are Lobbying to Send Workers to Their Deaths

Trump’s Bid to Pit Black and Brown Workers Against Each Other

The Federal Reserve and Black Unemployment

African-American Unemployment Rate Was ‘Virtually Unchanged’ In 2011

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