<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff solid 2px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT face=Arial>>black unemployment has dropped to 9% from 15% in 1985.</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT face=Arial></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT face=Arial>I wonder what the black unemployment figures would be if the prison population was factored in?</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT face=Arial></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=110481822-13071999><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=3>[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? </FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>