Nationwide unemployment in August stood at 3.7%, but for Black Americans that rate was 6.4%, roughly in line with a gap that has existed for as long as the Bureau of Labor Statistics began reporting that data. And locally, the racial unemployment gap is even starker. While the overall unemployment rate for Chicago is nearly 5.8% in August, the rate for Black residents is more than twice that, at 14.3%.
Yet according to another article posted on Wirepoints, 75% of black voters support Pritzker.
debtsor
3 years ago
“If you think about someone selling DVDs or selling socks, those are informal workers. You think about the bucket boys. Those are also informal workers,” We used to call the them vagrants, criminals and tax cheats, but like everything else these days, the defintion of ‘worker’ has changed. Also, the assumption underlying the CBO Collective’s missoin is that the community wants to work. I don’t believe this is a proper assumption to make. I have extended family members that operate in the informal economy, and use nearly all government benefits, and they very idea of working 40 hours a week… Read more »
Eugene from a pay phone
3 years ago
So does an open southern border with free transport to points North and points East help the black unemployment in any way?
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Yet according to another article posted on Wirepoints, 75% of black voters support Pritzker.
“If you think about someone selling DVDs or selling socks, those are informal workers. You think about the bucket boys. Those are also informal workers,” We used to call the them vagrants, criminals and tax cheats, but like everything else these days, the defintion of ‘worker’ has changed. Also, the assumption underlying the CBO Collective’s missoin is that the community wants to work. I don’t believe this is a proper assumption to make. I have extended family members that operate in the informal economy, and use nearly all government benefits, and they very idea of working 40 hours a week… Read more »
So does an open southern border with free transport to points North and points East help the black unemployment in any way?