New York's Unemployed, in Good Times or Bad; to Address the Myriad of Factors, We Need a Deputy Mayor for Full Employment
New York Amsterdam News › August 04, 2009
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New York City is home to an endemic jobs crisis among some key communities, especially African-Americans and Latinos. This problem has been stubbornly immune to the ups and downs of our city's economic health. And year after year, politicians have promised to bring jobs to the affected communities, when a more complex mix of social and economic remedies is required.
The statistics are simply depressing. Only 57% of African-American women in New York City are employed. Half of all African-American adult males are unemployed. Just 47% of Hispanic women are employed, while many Hispanic men struggle to improve their opportunities as well.When it comes to African-American and Hispanic women, for example, too many are slowed down professionally by the demands of what I term "caring up and caring down" -the exhausting struggle to look after children at their feet and elderly family members upstairs. Talk about a glass ceiling. Such a struggle - often as a single parent, without adequate health insurance or city health services - leaves precious little time for going that extra mile at work, let alone returning to school to get the degree that would bring new opportunities.See the full content of this document
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New York's Unemployed, in Good Times or Bad; to Address the Myriad of Factors, We Need a Deputy Mayor for Full Employment
New York City is home to an endemic jobs crisis among some key communities, especially African-Americans and Latinos. This problem has been stubbornly immune to the ups and downs of our city's economic health. And year after year, politician...
See the full content of this document
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