Male African-American Unemployment Is Over 50 Percent Among Dropouts

Male African-American Unemployment Is Over 50 Percent Among Dropouts
CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 09: Job seekers wait in line at Kennedy-King College to attend a job fair hosted by the city of Chicago on November 9, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Thousands of people waited in line beginning at 3AM for the job fair which did not open the doors until 9AM. When the doors opened the line was approximately a half-mile long. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 09: Job seekers wait in line at Kennedy-King College to attend a job fair hosted by the city of Chicago on November 9, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Thousands of people waited in line beginning at 3AM for the job fair which did not open the doors until 9AM. When the doors opened the line was approximately a half-mile long. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

More than half of male African-American high school dropouts are unemployed, according to a new online analysis of unemployment data by Remapping Debate, a left-of-center news site in New York.

“This is an emergency, this is a catastrophe [but Washington is] not rating it as a catastrophe,” said the site’s editor, Craig Gurian, told The Daily Caller.

The rate is “unbelievable, it is unbelievable,” said a Republican Senate staff member.

The online data shows the unemployment rates for 270 subgroups of Americans.

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