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Jan 19, 2012 at 9:46 am

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Unemployment Claims Drop 50,000, Evidence Economy Is Growing?

WASHINGTON — The number of people seeking unemployment benefits plummeted last week to 352,000, the fewest since April 2008. The decline added to evidence that the job market is strengthening.

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Applications fell 50,000, the biggest drop in the seasonally adjusted figure in more than six years, the Labor Department said Thursday. The four-week average, which smooths

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Jan 6, 2012 at 10:23 am

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Unemployment Rises For Blacks As It Falls For Everyone Else

WASHINGTON — A burst of hiring in December pushed the unemployment rate to its lowest level in nearly three years, giving the economy a boost at the end of 2011.

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The Labor Department said Friday that employers added a net 200,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent, the lowest since

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Dec 15, 2011 at 10:28 am

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Job Market Brightens As Unemployment Claims Dip

WASHINGTON– The outlook for the job market is looking brighter.

Far fewer people are seeking unemployment benefits than just three months ago – a sign that layoffs are falling sharply.

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The number of people applying for benefits fell last week to 366,000, the fewest since May 2008. If the number stayed that low consistently, it would likely signal that hiring is strong

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Dec 9, 2011 at 7:02 pm

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Income Gap Widens Within The Black Community

What happens within the black community when the gap widens between the poor and the affluent? That’s one question raised by new census data showing well-off African-Americans leaving cities for the suburbs and the South while the ranks of the black poor grow larger.

Over the past decade, the share of black households ranking among the poorest poor

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Nov 30, 2011 at 9:57 am

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Free Lunch Programs Surge As Families Weather Economic Downturn

Millions of American school children are receiving free or reduced lunches for the first time as America’s economic downturn has left many middle-class families struggling to make it.

The number of students recieiving subsidized lunch rose 17 percent since the 2006, according to Department of Agriculture data gathered by the New York Times. Eleven states had four-year increases of

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Oct 14, 2011 at 11:40 am

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Uplifting! Detroit Hosts “Offenders Only” Job Fair For Ex-Convicts

In Detroit, where a large number of the city’s unemployed are either on probation or on parole, the city recently held an “Offenders Only” Job Fair in an effort to put its ex-convicts back to work.

Organized by Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh, the job fair featured hundreds of job openings available only to individuals with a felony on their record.

“In this tough job market, we know that it is difficult,

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Sep 15, 2011 at 11:07 am

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Jobless Claims Rises To 428,000 In A Week

As the labor market stalls, jobless claims have risen to almost half a million. This is the second week in which unemployment claims have risen.

This brings the total number of Americans receiving unemployment to more than seven million people.

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Sep 14, 2011 at 8:42 am

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Economists Look For Bold Ideas On Black Unemployment

Fixing the overall jobs deficit and addressing the way that the recession has ravaged black and Latino households will require bold, even controversial solutions, economists say.

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Sep 8, 2011 at 6:42 pm

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“Pass This Right Away!” Obama Unveils Sweeping Jobs Plan [VIDEO]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Confronting an economy in peril, President Barack Obama unveiled a $450 billion plan Thursday night to boost jobs and put cash in the pockets of dispirited Americans, challenging Republican skeptics to embrace an approach heavy on the tax cuts they traditionally love. With millions of voters watching and ever skeptical of Washington, Obama told Congress, “Let’s meet the

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Sep 7, 2011 at 2:55 pm

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Dr. Boyce: 27-Year High On Black Unemployment Is A Sign To Wake Up

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its most recent unemployment data. We knew that Black folks (especially men) would be at the bottom, we just didn’t know how bad. Well, it turns out that the numbers exceed even the most pessimistic predictions.

Black unemployment shot up like a rocket during the month of August, rising from an abysmal 15.9 percent to an even more shocking 16.7 percent. Much of

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