Wednesday, January 16, 2013

WHY IS BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT SO HIGH AT 14%


Why is black unemployment so much higher than white?
LibertyNews – Duane Lester – 1/14/2013

This is a long involved article that really CONNECTS THE DOTS– listen to the two videos
8-minute video - MSNBC
4-minute video – Milton Freedman

The unemployment rate for black teens is 40.5 percent.
For a comparison, the unemployment rate for white teens is 21.6 percent.

Walter Williams explains more about why the minimum wage laws impact black youth more than white youth:

Teenagers tend to be low-skilled. They lack the experience, knowledge and maturity of adults. That means they will be the primary victims of a minimum wage law. But why are black teens more heavily impacted than white teens? Black teens are far more likely to come from broken homes and attend some of the worst schools in the nation. Therefore, a law that discriminates against the employment of low-skilled workers will have a greater impact on black workers.

Higher broken home.

Why are 70 percent of births in the black community to single mothers?  Liberalism:
Poor schools, which Democrats fight to keep blacks in, and all the hardships associated with the lack of a nuclear family, which Democrat policies destroyed.

Democratic policies have had a compounding impact on the life of the black American, from birth until death. A majority are born to a family without a father because Democratic social engineering made it easy for them to walk away. And Democratic loyalties for children into prisons thinly disguised as schools because the unions want it that way.

Finally, with no stable family and no decent education, they don’t seek a secondary education in a job market that almost requires one, limiting their options to lower wage or public sector jobs.
The better question is, with decades of “help” from the Democrat Party, how could unemployment in the black community not be this bad?

READER COMMENT:  Democrat policies have also made it more lucrative for low-skilled people of any race to stay on relief rather than improve their own lot through education or apprenticeship. I remember a conversation I had with a social worker living in West Virginia who said, "How can I convince people who have lived for generations on welfare to get jobs when they live better than I do?" How, indeed?


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1 comment:

  1. We can add a bunch of other huge factors.

    Grass roots development and small businesses are often zoned and regulated out of existence in poor neighborhoods hurting anyone without access to a car. (Also meaning that people do not see the example of sucessful businesspeople)
    Look at the location and design of old school housing projects which isolate people away from stores, jobs or anything.

    Limits on small scale business activity- like operating food trucks, street vending, operating taxi & van services, small scale contracting.

    Entrenched and often racist white unions that exclude easy access to jobs like construction work.

    The loss of social contacts caused by the destruction of organic neighborhood business networks. 1600 majority black neighborhoods were destroyed by governement urban renewal programs. This which had a devastating impact on the black business community.

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