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Unemployment rate rises for Blacks as it falls for everyone else

For the country as a whole, the unemployment rate fell in 2011. But not for African Americans.
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For the country as a whole, the unemployment rate fell in 2011. That’s great news, right? Not so much for African Americans.

Unemployment rate rises

As the economy slowly improved last year, the unemployment rate fell for both whites and Latinos.

But at the end of the year the black unemployment rate was 15.8%, exactly where it started out 2011, according to the government’s December jobs report released Friday. That’s a sharp contrast to the white unemployment rate, which fell to 7.5% last month.

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Unheard Voices is an award-winning news online magazine that started in 2004 as a newsletter in the Asbury Park, Neptune, and Long Branch, NJ areas to broadening into a recognized Black owned media outlet. The company is one of the few outlets dedicated to covering social justice issues. They are the recipient of the NAACP Unsung Hero Award and CV Magazine's Innovator Award for Best Social Justice Communications Company.

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