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We Must Win Back the American Dream for the 99% In 2012

Gerry Hudson | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Jobs Crisis, Unemployment Rate, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Economy, Economic Crisis, Seiu, Jobs, Unemployment, Economic Recovery, Medicaid, Medicare, Black Workers, African Americans, African-American Issues, Occupy Wall Street, Black Voices News
Gerry Hudson

As we honor Dr. King's legacy this year, we must remember that working families deserve economic justice, including America's 13 million unemployed, the long-term unemployed and the 24 million people looking for work.

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Diminishing Black Wealth

Rev. Al Sharpton | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Black Public Sector, Black Civil Service, Civil Service, Black Jobs, Black Workers, Public Sector, Black Wealth, Black Voices News
Rev. Al Sharpton

Not only has Black wealth diminished, but so too has the existence of much of this nation's Black middle class itself. Black, White or Brown -- that is a startling reality that should have all of us deeply concerned.

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Americans Have Not Regained Pre-Recession Job Satisfaction: Gallup

Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Low Income Workers, Job Satisfaction, Black Workers, Gallup-Healthways Poll, High Income Workers, Latino Workers, Recession, Latino Prosperity, Business News

The American economy might be recovering, but the Americans themselves aren't feeling the satisfaction. A new poll released today by Gallup, based ...

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The Recession: A New Disaster for Black Men

David R. Jones, Esq. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Black Male Unemployment, Unemployment Numbers, African-American-Unemployment, Unemployment-New-York, Black-Workers, Unemployment, Home News
David R. Jones, Esq.

The dangers of giving so many no hope in the American economy is going to be a fault line that will haunt us for generations if we don't begin to address it.

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Black Auto Workers Hit Particularly Hard By Recession

New York Times | Mary M. Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Racial Disparities, Black Workers, African Americans, Business News

DETROIT -- Since millions of African-Americans began leaving Southern farms for Northern factories nearly a century ago in what is still known as the ...

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