Black Male Unemployment up to 72% -College Education a Must!!!

[Greed]

New study finds 92 percent of African American male teens are unemployed

New study finds 92 percent of African American male teens are unemployed
Posted: Jan 17, 2014 8:54 PM CST Updated: Jan 24, 2014 8:54 PM CST

CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) -
Startling new figures about the state of our economy have recently come out.

Ninety-two percent of African American male teenagers in Chicago don't have a job.

A trend that continues to head in the wrong direction, for white and Hispanic teens, too.

The jobs catastrophe here is far worse than the national average.

These shocking numbers released by the Chicago Urban League are one more grim result of Illinois having 600,000 fewer jobs today than we did in the year 2000. Work that teens traditionally did, from delivering newspapers to flipping burgers, is now done by adults desperate for any income.

High school senior Dvante King is one of the lucky ones. He actually found two on-and-off part-time jobs last year. Combined, he earned less than a thousand dollars.

However, he was part of the eight percent of African-American male teens in Chicago who did find legitimate work; 92 percent of those age 16-19 were unemployed.

"It's a very shocking number. Like, if anybody else see them numbers, hopefully they'll come together, like we need do something," King said.

The jobless plight of Chicago's black teens, especially males, was analyzed in a new study released Friday by the Urban League. Nationwide 17 percent of black males 16-19 had some sort of job; 12 percent in Illinois; just 8 percent in Chicago.

"We do the studies because I don't think most people realize how bad the problem is and understand why this should be a priority issue. They think, "Oh, summer jobs for kids. That's a nice thing." It's not a "nice thing." It's a required thing," President of the Chicago Urban League Andrea Zopp said.

Dvante King got one of his jobs last summer though Diane Latiker's Kids Off the Block, referred to a City Hall program.

"Nothing is being invested to give those young people whose jobs are being taken, nothing is being done to create jobs for them," Latiker said.

Something to think about, especially when teens, like King, who are employed, are asked how it feels and they respond, "I mean, it made me feel, it made me feel wonderful."

Yet, nine out of 10 young men like him, though, don't get to experience that wonderful feeling of validation and achievement that comes from being able to say, "I have a job."

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/2...of-african-american-male-teens-are-unemployed

 

[Greed]

Report: Youth Unemployment High In Illinois, Chicago & Black Teens Hit The Hardest

Report: Youth Unemployment High In Illinois, Chicago & Black Teens Hit The Hardest
Ellyn Fortino
Wednesday March 26th, 2014, 3:04pm

Illinois teens are having a hard time attaining work, with the Prairie State being among the top ten states in the nation with the highest teen jobless rates. In 2012, the youth employment rate in Illinois was only 27 percent, a decrease of 10 percentage points from 2006, according to a recent report by the Chicago-based Alternative Schools Network.

The teen employment rate at the national level was also 27 percent in 2012. That figure is also down from 36 percent in 2006 and reflects the lowest employment rate in the nation's post-World War II history, according to the report, which is part of an ongoing series focused on local and national teen employment trends.

As previously noted, Illinois was one of10 states with the highest teen unemployment rate in 2012. And out of all Illinois teens, those in Chicago fared the worst with an employment rate of just 19 percent.

Across all geographic areas, black teens had the lowest employment rates compared to all other racial and ethnic groups, the report showed. In Illinois, only 16 out 100 black teens were employed in 2012, while just 11 out of 100 black teens in Chicago had jobs during that year.

“Every year, thousands of youth apply for jobs and every year there simply are not enough," Alternative Schools Network Executive Director Jack Wuest said in a statement. "The exclusion of teens from the job market is likely to continue and brings with it bleak economic prospects, limited earnings potential and significant taxpayer burden for the magnitude of jobless youth. Job creation for teens and young adults for 2014 has to be an immediate priority.”

Primarily low-wage jobs, which are typically associated with young people, have been created since the end of the Great Recession. But due to the overall shortage of jobs in recent years, more older people with higher levels of education are beating teens out for these low-wage positions.

An analysis by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, for example, found that teens made up just 12 percent of the share of low-wage workers in 2011, down from 26 percent in 1979. And by 2011, workers in the 25 to 64 age group represented 60 percent of low-wage workers. Additionally, the proportion of low-wages workers with a four-year college degree jumped from 5.7 percent in 1979 to 9.9 percent in 2011.

Meanwhile, black male teens ages 16 to 19 in Chicago faced the "most depressed state of employment" in 2012, according to the report. The employment rate among Chicago's black male teens dropped from 10 percent in 2006 to 8 percent in 2012. That means 92 percent of Chicago's black male teens were jobless in 2012.

The employment picture for low-income black teens living in Chicago households earning less than $20,000 annually was even worse. Just 6 percent of those low-income black teens had jobs in 2012, compared with 13 percent of Hispanic and 25 percent of white teens from similar households.

At the state level, teen employment trends among low-income households were also gloomy. The employment rate for low-income black Illinois teens in households making less than $20,000 was 5 percent, compared with 10 percent among Hispanics and 18 percent among whites.

Even as household income increased, employment rates among black teens at both the state level and in Chicago trailed behind their Hispanic and white counterparts. For example, among Chicago households earning $100,000 to $149,000, the employment rate for black teens was just 9 percent in 2012. By comparison, the employment rate was 30 percent for Hispanic and 33 percent for white teens with similar household income.

The report's findings were the focus of a Chicago Urban League hearing about on teen unemployment earlier this year. City and state officials who attended the hearing vowed to help boost the number of summer job opportunities for Illinois' youth. Officials did acknowledge, however, that government action alone cannot solve the teen unemployment crisis. Evelyn Diaz, commissioner of Chicago's Department of Family and Support Services, pointed out that more youth job opportunities need to come from the private sector as well.

Among other findings, the recent report showed that 20 to 24 year-olds were twice as likely as teens to be both jobless and out of school in 2012. The "incidence of disconnection from school and work" was greater in Chicago, however. Almost 23 percent of the city's 20 to 24 year-olds were out of work and out of school compared to less than 10 percent of Chicago's teens. Moreover, more than four out of every 10 black Chicago youth ages 20 to 24 were out of work and out of school, compared with 17 percent of their Hispanic counterparts and just 5 percent of their white, non-Hispanic peers.

Students who do not work while in school face greater chances of dropping out of high school as well as increased incidences of teenaged childbearing and juvenile delinquency and arrests, the report noted.

"The loss of teen employment poses serious policy implications nationally and locally including significant adverse affects on future employability, earnings, family incomes, and marriage rates, as well as serious fiscal burdens on the rest of society associated with lower lifetime earnings, lessened tax contributions and higher correctional costs," the report reads.

It's important to note that minority students are also disproportionately impacted by harsh school discipline policies that could hinder their chances of gaining a high school diploma, which is a necessity for most jobs as well as higher levels of education.

Black students, for example, are more than three times as likely as their white counterparts to be expelled or suspended from school. And about 70 percent of students involved in "school-related arrests or referrals to law enforcement" are black and Hispanic. Discipline policies such as expulsions, suspensions and school-based arrests can increase the chances of students dropping out of school or failing to graduate on time.

Also, a criminal history can often be a major barrier to employment. Responding to this concern, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn issued an administrative order back in October that "bans the box" on applications for state government jobs, requiring state agencies to evaluate an applicant's skills before asking about criminal history.

The report does offer some recommendations to help ease the bleak employment picture for Illinois teens. It urges elected officials to invest more in summer and year-round job opportunities for youth across the state. Additionally, it calls for the revival of the proposed Pathways Back to Work Act, a federal measure that would create a $5 billion fund to help pay for summer and year-round job opportunities for low-income youth, work-based training for both adults and young people and subsidized employment programs for jobless and low-income adults.

“Youth employment is not only a vital and effective violence prevention vehicle, but also a means for encouraging youth to stay in school and provides much-needed financial support to youth and their families while serving as a critical stepping-stone to future employment,” Wuest stressed. “The staggering number of black and low-income teens who were jobless in 2012 provides a sobering reminder that we must do everything in our power to find jobs for all of our young people.”

http://www.progressillinois.com/qui...-high-illinois-chicago-black-teens-hit-hardes

 

[QueEx]

Re: Report: Youth Unemployment High In Illinois, Chicago & Black Teens Hit The Hardes

Black Unemployment Rate Headed for Single Digits

Valerie Wilson, the director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE) at Economic Policy Institute. (Freddie Allen/NNPA)​

Black Press USA
By Freddie Allen
NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent
January 13, 2015


WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After three consecutive months of the economy adding more than 25,000 jobs, the Black unemployment rate could dip below 10 percent by mid-2015 if current trends continue, says Valerie Wilson, an economist and director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE) at Economic Policy Institute.

When Wilson analyzed the labor force participate rate, which includes people that currently hold jobs or are looking for work and the employment-population ratio for all workers, she found that Blacks had the biggest increase in both measures from December 2013 to December 2014.

“If the same trends in the labor force participation rate and the decline in the unemployment rate that we saw in 2014 continue into 2015, the Black unemployment rate should get down to the single digits by the middle of this year,” said Wilson.

The Black unemployment rate decreased from 11 percent in November to 10.4 percent in December, and the jobless rate for White workers ticked down 0.1 percent to 4.8 percent in December, according to the latest jobs report by the Labor Department.

The unemployment rate for Black men over 20 years old ticked down from 11.2 percent to 11 percent in December while the unemployment rate for White men fell from 4.6 to 4.4 percent over that period.

The unemployment rate for Black women over 20 years-old slid from 9.5 percent in November to 8.2 percent in December and White women saw their unemployment rate inch down from 4.5 percent to 4.4 percent during the same period. The Labor Department also revised the number of jobs added in October (261,000) and November (353,000), accounting for an increase of 50,000 jobs.

American workers found jobs in professional and business services, construction, food services and drinking places, health care, and manufacturing in December.

Wilson said that December’s jobs report signals that the prospect of economic recovery in the Black community is pretty strong.

She said, “The African American workforce is benefitting from the job growth that is taking place right now and the longer that continues, the better it’s going to be for those communities.”

Bernard Anderson, a nationally-recognized economist and professor emeritus at the Wharton business school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, agreed.

“Despite the fact that Black people have a higher rate of unemployment and lower income, they remain far more committed to the labor market than White workers on average,” said Anderson.

Anderson said that employment is growing more rapidly now than at any time since the recovery began in 2009. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew 5 percent in the third quarter of 2014, yet wages have not increased significantly.

“We have an anomalous situation in the labor market where employment is beginning to rise, but earnings are still relatively flat,” explained Anderson. In fact, average hourly earnings for all employees shed a nickel in December.

Anderson observed that wages increased more rapidly during previous recoveries as the unemployment rate fell.

Lawrence Mishel, the president of the Economic Policy Institute, wrote in a blog post at EPI.org that stagnant wages hurt more than the workers at bottom.

“Since the late 1970s, wages for the bottom 70 percent of earners have been essentially stagnant, and between 2009 and 2013, real wages fell for the entire bottom 90 percent of the wage distribution,” Mishel wrote. “Even wages for the bottom 70 percent of four-year college graduates have been flat since 2000, and wages in most STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) occupations have grown anemically over the past decade.”

Anderson said that when the labor market tightens the unemployment rate comes down, and employers are forced to compete with each other for available labor. That competition often leads to increased wages.

Unionization also plays a critical role in raising the wages of low- and middle-income earners.

Mishel said that unionization leads to higher wages without harming economic efficiency.

“Collective bargaining also leads to a larger share of corporate income going to wages rather than profits; the fact that corporate profits are at historic highs is a reflection, in part, of the current weakness of collective bargaining and the heightened power of corporate owners and managers,” Mishel wrote at EPI.org.

Even though overall union membership has fallen to record lows, according to a 2012 report on unionization by the Labor Center at the University of California at Berkeley, Black workers were union members at higher rates than non-Black workers in the United States.

“In 2012, 13.1% of all Black workers in the United States were union members; 11.0% of non-Black workers in the United States were union members,” the report said. “Among workers in the largest metropolitan areas, Blacks were 42% more likely to belong to unions compared to non-Blacks.”

Wilson said that if workers don’t feel empowered on the job, it’s difficult to go in to negotiate and demand the pay that they deserve.

She said, “As long as workers feel disenfranchised, barring a sudden boom in the economy that drives wages up, I don’t know that it’s going to happen organically.”
​

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[QueEx]

This article doesn't appear to separately address black male or black youth unemployment

Black Unemployment Rate Headed for Single Digits

Valerie Wilson, the director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE) at Economic Policy Institute. (Freddie Allen/NNPA)​

Black Press USA
By Freddie Allen
NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent
January 13, 2015


WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After three consecutive months of the economy adding more than 25,000 jobs, the Black unemployment rate could dip below 10 percent by mid-2015 if current trends continue, says Valerie Wilson, an economist and director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE) at Economic Policy Institute.

When Wilson analyzed the labor force participate rate, which includes people that currently hold jobs or are looking for work and the employment-population ratio for all workers, she found that Blacks had the biggest increase in both measures from December 2013 to December 2014.

“If the same trends in the labor force participation rate and the decline in the unemployment rate that we saw in 2014 continue into 2015, the Black unemployment rate should get down to the single digits by the middle of this year,” said Wilson.

The Black unemployment rate decreased from 11 percent in November to 10.4 percent in December, and the jobless rate for White workers ticked down 0.1 percent to 4.8 percent in December, according to the latest jobs report by the Labor Department.

The unemployment rate for Black men over 20 years old ticked down from 11.2 percent to 11 percent in December while the unemployment rate for White men fell from 4.6 to 4.4 percent over that period.

The unemployment rate for Black women over 20 years-old slid from 9.5 percent in November to 8.2 percent in December and White women saw their unemployment rate inch down from 4.5 percent to 4.4 percent during the same period. The Labor Department also revised the number of jobs added in October (261,000) and November (353,000), accounting for an increase of 50,000 jobs.

American workers found jobs in professional and business services, construction, food services and drinking places, health care, and manufacturing in December.

Wilson said that December’s jobs report signals that the prospect of economic recovery in the Black community is pretty strong.

She said, “The African American workforce is benefitting from the job growth that is taking place right now and the longer that continues, the better it’s going to be for those communities.”

Bernard Anderson, a nationally-recognized economist and professor emeritus at the Wharton business school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, agreed.

“Despite the fact that Black people have a higher rate of unemployment and lower income, they remain far more committed to the labor market than White workers on average,” said Anderson.

Anderson said that employment is growing more rapidly now than at any time since the recovery began in 2009. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew 5 percent in the third quarter of 2014, yet wages have not increased significantly.

“We have an anomalous situation in the labor market where employment is beginning to rise, but earnings are still relatively flat,” explained Anderson. In fact, average hourly earnings for all employees shed a nickel in December.

Anderson observed that wages increased more rapidly during previous recoveries as the unemployment rate fell.

Lawrence Mishel, the president of the Economic Policy Institute, wrote in a blog post at EPI.org that stagnant wages hurt more than the workers at bottom.

“Since the late 1970s, wages for the bottom 70 percent of earners have been essentially stagnant, and between 2009 and 2013, real wages fell for the entire bottom 90 percent of the wage distribution,” Mishel wrote. “Even wages for the bottom 70 percent of four-year college graduates have been flat since 2000, and wages in most STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) occupations have grown anemically over the past decade.”

Anderson said that when the labor market tightens the unemployment rate comes down, and employers are forced to compete with each other for available labor. That competition often leads to increased wages.

Unionization also plays a critical role in raising the wages of low- and middle-income earners.

Mishel said that unionization leads to higher wages without harming economic efficiency.

“Collective bargaining also leads to a larger share of corporate income going to wages rather than profits; the fact that corporate profits are at historic highs is a reflection, in part, of the current weakness of collective bargaining and the heightened power of corporate owners and managers,” Mishel wrote at EPI.org.

Even though overall union membership has fallen to record lows, according to a 2012 report on unionization by the Labor Center at the University of California at Berkeley, Black workers were union members at higher rates than non-Black workers in the United States.

“In 2012, 13.1% of all Black workers in the United States were union members; 11.0% of non-Black workers in the United States were union members,” the report said. “Among workers in the largest metropolitan areas, Blacks were 42% more likely to belong to unions compared to non-Blacks.”

Wilson said that if workers don’t feel empowered on the job, it’s difficult to go in to negotiate and demand the pay that they deserve.

She said, “As long as workers feel disenfranchised, barring a sudden boom in the economy that drives wages up, I don’t know that it’s going to happen organically.”
​

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[thoughtone]

This article doesn't appear to separately address black male or black youth unemployment

Black Unemployment Rate Headed for Single Digits

Valerie Wilson, the director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE) at Economic Policy Institute. (Freddie Allen/NNPA)​

Black Press USA
By Freddie Allen
NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent
January 13, 2015


WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After three consecutive months of the economy adding more than 25,000 jobs, the Black unemployment rate could dip below 10 percent by mid-2015 if current trends continue, says Valerie Wilson, an economist and director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE) at Economic Policy Institute.

When Wilson analyzed the labor force participate rate, which includes people that currently hold jobs or are looking for work and the employment-population ratio for all workers, she found that Blacks had the biggest increase in both measures from December 2013 to December 2014.

“If the same trends in the labor force participation rate and the decline in the unemployment rate that we saw in 2014 continue into 2015, the Black unemployment rate should get down to the single digits by the middle of this year,” said Wilson.

The Black unemployment rate decreased from 11 percent in November to 10.4 percent in December, and the jobless rate for White workers ticked down 0.1 percent to 4.8 percent in December, according to the latest jobs report by the Labor Department.

The unemployment rate for Black men over 20 years old ticked down from 11.2 percent to 11 percent in December while the unemployment rate for White men fell from 4.6 to 4.4 percent over that period.

The unemployment rate for Black women over 20 years-old slid from 9.5 percent in November to 8.2 percent in December and White women saw their unemployment rate inch down from 4.5 percent to 4.4 percent during the same period. The Labor Department also revised the number of jobs added in October (261,000) and November (353,000), accounting for an increase of 50,000 jobs.

American workers found jobs in professional and business services, construction, food services and drinking places, health care, and manufacturing in December.

Wilson said that December’s jobs report signals that the prospect of economic recovery in the Black community is pretty strong.

She said, “The African American workforce is benefitting from the job growth that is taking place right now and the longer that continues, the better it’s going to be for those communities.”

Bernard Anderson, a nationally-recognized economist and professor emeritus at the Wharton business school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, agreed.

“Despite the fact that Black people have a higher rate of unemployment and lower income, they remain far more committed to the labor market than White workers on average,” said Anderson.

Anderson said that employment is growing more rapidly now than at any time since the recovery began in 2009. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew 5 percent in the third quarter of 2014, yet wages have not increased significantly.

“We have an anomalous situation in the labor market where employment is beginning to rise, but earnings are still relatively flat,” explained Anderson. In fact, average hourly earnings for all employees shed a nickel in December.

Anderson observed that wages increased more rapidly during previous recoveries as the unemployment rate fell.

Lawrence Mishel, the president of the Economic Policy Institute, wrote in a blog post at EPI.org that stagnant wages hurt more than the workers at bottom.

“Since the late 1970s, wages for the bottom 70 percent of earners have been essentially stagnant, and between 2009 and 2013, real wages fell for the entire bottom 90 percent of the wage distribution,” Mishel wrote. “Even wages for the bottom 70 percent of four-year college graduates have been flat since 2000, and wages in most STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) occupations have grown anemically over the past decade.”

Anderson said that when the labor market tightens the unemployment rate comes down, and employers are forced to compete with each other for available labor. That competition often leads to increased wages.

Unionization also plays a critical role in raising the wages of low- and middle-income earners.

Mishel said that unionization leads to higher wages without harming economic efficiency.

“Collective bargaining also leads to a larger share of corporate income going to wages rather than profits; the fact that corporate profits are at historic highs is a reflection, in part, of the current weakness of collective bargaining and the heightened power of corporate owners and managers,” Mishel wrote at EPI.org.

Even though overall union membership has fallen to record lows, according to a 2012 report on unionization by the Labor Center at the University of California at Berkeley, Black workers were union members at higher rates than non-Black workers in the United States.

“In 2012, 13.1% of all Black workers in the United States were union members; 11.0% of non-Black workers in the United States were union members,” the report said. “Among workers in the largest metropolitan areas, Blacks were 42% more likely to belong to unions compared to non-Blacks.”

Wilson said that if workers don’t feel empowered on the job, it’s difficult to go in to negotiate and demand the pay that they deserve.

She said, “As long as workers feel disenfranchised, barring a sudden boom in the economy that drives wages up, I don’t know that it’s going to happen organically.”
​

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[Mrfreddygoodbud]

I would suggest folks finding out

what they love to do and do it....

everybody got a passion, but we are

trained not to follow it, and to follow

the herd, with the resume thingy and

begging for job thingy....


truth is... we need to really follow what we

love to do..

sometimes college helps, sometimes it makes

matters worse...

my neighbors son is 19, skipped college, loves

to draw and ended up working as a graphic

designer making enough money where he

could pay his own college tuition without a loan..

and he wouldnt have to because he has tuition

reimbursement in his benefit package...

thats so much better than going to college, graduating

owning a hundred thousand plus interest loan...

and cant find a job making more than 15 an hour..

 

[freshnclean]

I would suggest folks finding out

what they love to do and do it....

everybody got a passion, but we are

trained not to follow it, and to follow

the herd, with the resume thingy and

begging for job thingy....


truth is... we need to really follow what we

love to do..

sometimes college helps, sometimes it makes

matters worse...

my neighbors son is 19, skipped college, loves

to draw and ended up working as a graphic

designer making enough money where he

could pay his own college tuition without a loan..

and he wouldnt have to because he has tuition

reimbursement in his benefit package...

thats so much better than going to college, graduating

owning a hundred thousand plus interest loan...

and cant find a job making more than 15 an hour..

This sounds good to follow your passion, but realistically theres no promise that you will be able to make a living by doing that as well.

The best thing to do is to go to college and choose a major thats in high demand and/or predicted to be in high demand by the time you graduate, and take a minor in the thing you are passionate about. This way you can have the best of both worlds and if "following your dream" doesnt work, you can still pay your bills.

Times are different now, job security is slimmer than ever,. As a result, you have to acquire as many skill sets as you can (wear many hats).

 

[freshnclean]

I would suggest folks finding out

what they love to do and do it....

everybody got a passion, but we are

trained not to follow it, and to follow

the herd, with the resume thingy and

begging for job thingy....


truth is... we need to really follow what we

love to do..

sometimes college helps, sometimes it makes

matters worse...

my neighbors son is 19, skipped college, loves

to draw and ended up working as a graphic

designer making enough money where he

could pay his own college tuition without a loan..

and he wouldnt have to because he has tuition

reimbursement in his benefit package...

thats so much better than going to college, graduating

owning a hundred thousand plus interest loan...

and cant find a job making more than 15 an hour..

Thats what happens when you major in liberal arts and psychology instead of biochemical engineering (and things similar). When you choose a major, its a wise idea to choose something in the science/health field. Another thing is, its a good idea to devise a plan on how you can use your degree to monetize yourself in the form of your own business, so you dont end up being a work slave for the rest of your life

 

[The Ghost of Gulag River]

When you're goals are to be the next Rick Ross or star on Empire, and those are still your goals in your mid 20's you lawse

I watch my Indian brothers and sistas come over here with nothing, not even speaking the language well then make over 120k a year routinely. Don't tell me a nigga cant find a job. And fuck em if they don't have the sense to improve their soft skills

I'm republican when it comes to shit like this. You know how to code, cut and sow someone back together, build a house, or any other specialized skill a cracka gonna hire you. But you cant walk into a job with no skill and think you gonna eat like another cracker.

 

[QueEx]

I watch my Indian brothers and sistas come over here with nothing, not even speaking the language well then make over 120k a year routinely. Don't tell me a nigga cant find a job. And fuck em if they don't have the sense to improve their soft skills

I does appear that a lot of Indians that come here do well but many speak english better than you might know (though it may sound strange) since India was colonized by the British for almost 90 years (1858-1947).

I am told by Indian acquaintances in the hotel industry that they have amongst some of them a work & investment system whereby new ones work, I hear at low wages, and learn from those in established enterprises and later obtain loans/grants from within to start their own enterprises -- on a continuing cycle. If that be true, that might be something we should consider?

 

[thoughtone]

I does appear that a lot of Indians that come here do well but many speak english better than you might know (though it may sound strange) since India was colonized by the British for almost 90 years (1858-1947).

I am told by Indian acquaintances in the hotel industry that they have amongst some of them a work & investment system whereby new ones work, I hear at low wages, and learn from those in established enterprises and later obtain loans/grants from within to start their own enterprises -- on a continuing cycle. If that be true, that might be something we should consider?

Many non Hispanic immigrants that come to the US have sponsors. They tend to be the most motivated and educated.

That's why they have at least a functional command of English.

A town not too far from me, Clarkston, Georgia has per capita the largest East African population in the USA. Ethiopians, Somalis, Eritreans as well as many southeastern Asian refugees are common.

These people arrived to this country with little more than what they have on, yet I notice they make sure their children are prepared and serious about education.

I have noticed that even though many of them don't speak fluent English, their basic educational profecicy is above their typical American counterpart that attend public school.

Despite the conspicuous defacto segregation of Atlanta area public schools, I see very few East African and Indian children in the public schools. They are enrolled in charter, magnet and private schools.

And I see very few of them engaged in the latest fads.

African Americans, at one point were the beacons of the world for oppressed non whites to aspire to opportunity.

Education was once our priority.

We have to refocus!

 

[thoughtone]

When you're goals are to be the next Rick Ross or star on Empire, and those are still your goals in your mid 20's you lawse

I watch my Indian brothers and sistas come over here with nothing, not even speaking the language well then make over 120k a year routinely. Don't tell me a nigga cant find a job. And fuck em if they don't have the sense to improve their soft skills

I'm republican when it comes to shit like this. You know how to code, cut and sow someone back together, build a house, or any other specialized skill a cracka gonna hire you. But you cant walk into a job with no skill and think you gonna eat like another cracker.

While a agree with most of this post, this phrase:

Don't tell me a nigga....

is part of the problem.

I hear no word, phrase, description or vernacular from any immigrant used to refer to each other.

Although many claim physiological oppression is just an "excuse", it is a very real issue.

 

[QueEx]

We have to refocus!

 

[thoughtone]

source: Vox



5 reasons boys are falling behind at school



In school, boys are falling behind. Around the world, they're more likely than girls to be classified as low achievers, meaning they weren't proficient in reading, math, science, or problem-solving.

The OECD looked at the data from the test and an associated survey to try to figure out what's causing boys to lose ground. Here are five of their findings:

1) Boys are more likely to be disengaged at school

Across the developed world, 15-year-old boys were more likely than girls to say that school is a waste of time and less likely to agree that trying hard at school is important. Boys are more likely to be late to class or skip school entirely. And boys are more likely to be held back than girls are.

These differences aren't massive — in most cases, they're less than 10 percentage points. But they still indicate that there are big, gender-based differences in how students think about school and how important they think it is.

2) There's a gender gap on doing homework

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It doesn't matter whether students have a lot of homework (almost 15 hours per week in Shanghai) or very little (around 3 hours per week in Finland): boys spent less time on it than girls. On average in the OECD, girls reported doing 5.5 hours of homework per week; boys did only 4.5.

That doesn't explain all of the gender gap in test scores, but it does explain part of it, according to the OECD — after accounting for the time spent doing homework, boys actually perform better than girls in math and science, and the gender gap in reading is smaller.

3) Boys spend more time on the internet and playing video games

What are boys doing with all that non-homework time? They're on the internet and playing video games, the survey suggests. Most girls say they never or have hardly ever played single-player or collaborative online games. On the other hand, most boys do, but not every day.

Is this a disadvantage? It might not be. Playing single-player games was correlated with higher test scores, although collaborative games was associated with lower scores. And boys tend to do better than girls on standardized tests taken on the computer, rather than on paper. That suggests the video gaming time could help them as computer-based assessments become more common.

4) Boys read for fun much less than girls

The gender gap between boys and girls is particularly evident in one subject: reading. And in every country but Korea, girls do more reading for fun than boys. The OECD found that it didn't really matter what students read — whether it was fiction, nonfiction, newspapers, or comic books, more time spent reading translated into higher reading test scores. Boys were more likely to read comic books and newspapers, and less likely to read fiction. But elementary school reading in particular has historically focused on nonfiction, and the OECD argues that this could be turning boys off of reading and widening a gender gap.

5) Boys have lower aspirations for their careers

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Across the world, 15-year-old girls expect to have higher-status jobs when they're older than boys do. They're more likely to expect to earn a college degree, and more likely to say they expect to have high-status jobs as managers, professionals, or elected officials. On the other hand, the percentage of men and women in those jobs in their mid-20s to early 30s is almost exactly the same. That suggests that girls are more ambitious — but they're not necessarily achieving those goals.

 

[QueEx]

Don't tell me a nigga cant . . .

. . . [that] phrase:


is part of the problem.


I hear no word, phrase, description or vernacular from any immigrant used to refer to each other.

Which is why we have Rule Number 3

 

[freshnclean]

I dont think boys have lower career aspirations than girls, its just more with unrealistic" aspirations. For example, I lost count of the black boys that wanna grow up and become rappers or pro athletes. The window to actually "make it" is super small. Meanwhile, the average girl wants to grow up and become a lawyer, doctor, etc....Between the two career paths, which has a higher probability of actually establishing a career in that field?

On a sidenote, this is a bigger issue than the vox article is touching on. The black community has been socially engineered to the point of driving boys away from realistic career paths on purpose.

 

[thoughtone]

I dont think boys have lower career aspirations than girls, its just more with unrealistic" aspirations. For example, I lost count of the black boys that wanna grow up and become rappers or pro athletes. The window to actually "make it" is super small. Meanwhile, the average girl wants to grow up and become a lawyer, doctor, etc....Between the two career paths, which has a higher probability of actually establishing a career in that field?

On a sidenote, this is a bigger issue than the vox article is touching on. The black community has been socially engineered to the point of driving boys away from realistic career paths on purpose.

Unrealistic!

 

[RUDY RAYYY MO]

Many non Hispanic immigrants that come to the US have sponsors. They tend to be the most motivated and educated.

That's why they have at least a functional command of English.

A town not too far from me, Clarkston, Georgia has per capita the largest East African population in the USA. Ethiopians, Somalis, Eritreans as well as many southeastern Asian refugees are common.

These people arrived to this country with little more than what they have on, yet I notice they make sure their children are prepared and serious about education.

I have noticed that even though many of them don't speak fluent English, their basic educational profecicy is above their typical American counterpart that attend public school.

Despite the conspicuous defacto segregation of Atlanta area public schools, I see very few East African and Indian children in the public schools. They are enrolled in charter, magnet and private schools.

And I see very few of them engaged in the latest fads.

African Americans, at one point were the beacons of the world for oppressed non whites to aspire to opportunity.

Education was once our priority.

We have to refocus!

Word, Eritreans in Clarkston? So that's where the dimes are hiding. Road tripppp

Sent from my SGH-M919 using Tapatalk

 

[Dannyblueyes]

Many non Hispanic immigrants that come to the US have sponsors. They tend to be the most motivated and educated.

That's why they have at least a functional command of English.

A town not too far from me, Clarkston, Georgia has per capita the largest East African population in the USA. Ethiopians, Somalis, Eritreans as well as many southeastern Asian refugees are common.

These people arrived to this country with little more than what they have on, yet I notice they make sure their children are prepared and serious about education.

I have noticed that even though many of them don't speak fluent English, their basic educational profecicy is above their typical American counterpart that attend public school.

Despite the conspicuous defacto segregation of Atlanta area public schools, I see very few East African and Indian children in the public schools. They are enrolled in charter, magnet and private schools.

And I see very few of them engaged in the latest fads.

African Americans, at one point were the beacons of the world for oppressed non whites to aspire to opportunity.

Education was once our priority.

We have to refocus!

Immigrants are people who have already decided to gamble large amounts of time effort and money to leave their home country for a completely foreign land on the off chance that things might be better there. If they fail or fuck up in any way they get sent back with their tail between their legs never to return. Of course they're motivated.

The only reason a company would hire a FOB immigrant is because it's cheaper or they have a skill that's too hard to find amongst born Americans. The real question is why is the skill so rare? Why is it easier for a company like Google to naturalize an Indian coder than it is to find a black coder from an Oakland high school?

While every one is blaming the black kids I blame the education system. If a semi-third world country like India can provide this kind of training American schools could be doing the same.

 

[The Ghost of Gulag River]

I does appear that a lot of Indians that come here do well but many speak english better than you might know (though it may sound strange) since India was colonized by the British for almost 90 years (1858-1947).

I am told by Indian acquaintances in the hotel industry that they have amongst some of them a work & investment system whereby new ones work, I hear at low wages, and learn from those in established enterprises and later obtain loans/grants from within to start their own enterprises -- on a continuing cycle. If that be true, that might be something we should consider?

I'd settle to hear a brother say wanted to be anything other than a rapper, athlete or baller

 

[Greed]

African American Teenage Unemployment: 3rd Highest In Developed World

African American Teenage Unemployment: 3rd Highest In Developed World

African American teenagers are a silent group suffering and their current condition do not bode well as the stated above reasons show for African America’s future economic condition. They have the least voice among any group it appears in America but given the percentage of African American single parent households are arguably the second most important wage earner in the family. If the children are our (economic) future as Whitney Houston once said, then the future economic condition is looking bleaker and bleaker for African Americans.

http://hbcumoney.com/2013/08/01/african-american-teenage-unemployment-3rd-highest-developed-world/

 

[thoughtone]

source: Forbes

White High School Drop-Outs Are As Likely To Land Jobs As Black College Students


African-Americans college students are about as likely to get hired as whites who have dropped out of high school. So says a new report from a non-profit called Young Invincibles, which analyzed data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census and examined the effect race and education levels have on unemployment. “We were startled to see just how much more education young African-Americans must get in order to have the same chance at landing a job as their white peers,” said Rory O’Sullivan, deputy director of Young Invincibles, in a statement.

While the report paints a bleak picture for African-American college student job seekers who are competing with poorly educated whites, it also offers some encouraging news for black students who stay in school and get their diplomas: As both blacks and whites earn higher degrees, the difference in unemployment rates among the races narrows. Among black and white men who have earned bachelor’s degrees, the unemployment gap is only 5%. For black women who have bachelor’s degrees, the gap with whites is just 3%. For blacks and whites who earn professional degrees, the gap almost disappears.

Another way of looking at it: Among blacks who earn professional degrees, the impact on their chances of finding a job is nearly one-and-a-half times greater than it is for whites who earn the same degrees. In addition, African-Americans who have bachelor’s degrees earn $10,000 more a year than those who don’t have a bachelor’s, compared to white men, who earn just $6,100 more than they would if they didn’t have a bachelor’s. The value of a graduate degree is even greater for African-American men. Those who have advanced degrees make $21,000 more per year than grads with bachelor’s degrees while white men with advanced degrees make just $15,100 more, according to BLS and Census data and analysis by a group at the College Board.

The report ventures numerous theories to explain the employment gap between the races and a list of proposed solutions. Persistent racial discrimination in hiring is one obvious cause. The high incarceration rate among African-Americans is another reason, says the report, citing a 2014 Brookings study showing that there is nearly a 70% chance that an African-American male without a high school diploma will be in prison by his mid 30s; having a criminal record makes it much tougher to find a job. The report also suggests that the wealth gap between whites and blacks undermines African-Americans’ ability to be job ready. In a 2012 Forbes.com story, Emory University tax law professor Dorothy Brown wrote that the median net worth of white households was 20 times greater than that of black households.

The report doesn’t venture to suggest how to remedy discrimination, reduce incarceration rates or shrink income inequality. Instead it focuses on solutions within the education system. Among them:

Early awareness and counseling about the college process. A program called College Possible counsels under-served students on how to handle applications and prepare for admissions tests. It has a track record of getting 30% more students to go to four-year colleges than those who don’t do the program. There is a massive shortage of college counselors, says the report, with 459 students per counselor. A program called National College Advising Corp, similar to Teach for America, is addressing the challenge. The report recommends that AmeriCorp provide counselors in low-income schools with disproportionate numbers of African-American students. Elite institutions tend to grant more aid than state schools.

- FAFSA reform. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) now has a stultifying 100-plus questions. The report backs a proposal by the College Board and the National College Access Network, also supported by Senators Lamar Alexander and Michael Bennet, to boil down the application to just two questions: adjusted gross income and family size. (I think assets should also be taken into account.)

- Federal funding of community colleges that serve low-income students with high minority enrollments.

- Expanding the Pell grant program beyond the $5,730 maximum award

- Admission alternatives to affirmative action. The study recommends that public universities take a designated number of the top-ranked students from each high school. (I think this approach has problems, since, unfortunately, some low-performing high schools don’t prepare students for top universities like University of California at Berkeley. For such a program to work, I believe it needs to be coupled with an academic and counseling support system once the students get to college.)

- Make transferring easier. More bachelor’s degree-granting institutions should form partnerships with less-expensive two-year community colleges, to encourage students to go on to get bachelor’s degrees. Example: Valencia College in Orlando, which has a successful partnership with University of Central Florida. Some 40% of Valencia grads go on to UCF.

- Increased support from the state budgets for the public system.
Young Invincibles is a five-year-old Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that was started by a couple of students working out of a law school cafeteria with the objective of making young people a part of the health care debate. It has since expanded to six more offices across the country, addressing the concerns of Millennials (aged 18 to 34) on issues including higher education and jobs and the economy.