Friday, January 17, 2014

Report: Black Male Teens Had 83% Unemployment Rate in 2012

PR Newswire reports:
As the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the "War on Poverty" legislation, introduced by President Johnson during his State of the Union address on January, 8, 1964, a new report on teen unemployment is being released today showing that the progress made in employment of youth and young adults ages 16 to 24 has been lost over the past decade.
Yet, some people want to raise the minimum wage to raise the cost of employing people!