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Members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Thursday publicly accused the
Obama administration of failing to adequately address a veritable epidemic
of African American unemployment.
"Can you imagine a situation where any other group of workers, if 34
percent of white women were out there looking for work and couldn't find it?"
asked Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Missouri Democrat and chairman of the caucus.
"You would see congressional hearings and community gatherings. There would
be rallies and protest marches. There is no way that this would be allowed
to stand."
In _May,_ (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm) the black
unemployment rate was at 16.2 percent compared to 9.1 percent overall
joblessness and 8 percent levels among white workers. In Milwaukee, Wis., a
staggering 34 percent of black men are unemployed, CBS news _reported._
(http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/20/eveningnews/main20072738.shtml)
The Obama administration has focused on broad-based initiatives aimed at
lowering unemployment in general, while declining to address elevated rates
among minority groups. The administration unleashed an $800 billion package
of spending measures aimed at stimulating economic growth, while extending
unemployment benefits and increasing funding for community health centers.
These programs are also sure to help black and Latino Americans hard hit by
the recession, Obama _said at a White House press conference_
(http://newsone.com/nation/cganemccalla/obama-addresses-black-unemployment-at%20press-co
nference/) in April.
Debate about the ability of a universal job creation strategy to address
persistent and disproportionate African American unemployment occupied a
significant portion of Thursday's gathering. So too did concerns about the
political feasibility of any sort of effort to target black joblessness, the
public's appetite for programs that may look and sound like affirmative
action and common assumptions about why so many black people do not have jobs.
Black Americans make up about 12 percent of the nation's population, but
about 20 percent of the unemployed.
"This is an American crisis that demands an American response at the
highest echelons of our government," said Michael Eric Dyson, a writer,
Georgetown University professor and frequent social and political
commentator on
television and radio programs aimed at a black audiences. "And that does
include the White House."
In March, the White House's chief economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, told
The Huffington Post that it seemed virtually impossible that the White House
would be able to wrestle any additional spending -- including spending to
create jobs -- out of Congress.
