Critique of reporting on level of unemployment

WIDEye wideye at ziplink.net
Tue Jul 13 15:27:10 PDT 1999


>black unemployment has dropped to 9% from 15% in 1985.

I wonder what the black unemployment figures would be if the prison population was factored in?

[Alex Lantsberg] i think i remember hearing 16% somewhere on this list. i actually wonder what the relationship (in raw numbers) of growth of african-american prison population to the drop in unemployment? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/19990713/4e169128/attachment.htm>



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