One of the many cities overlooked when you think about Black unemployment is Milwaukee. While the national African-American unemployment rate sits over 16 percent, 34 percent of Black men in Milwaukee are unemployed. The main reason for this high rate amongst Black men is the loss of jobs in the manufacturing sector. Close to 56,000 […]

In an ideal America, our president would have told us Tuesday night about his plan not only for fixing the jobs crisis but also for making it so that the crisis wasn’t twice as bad for black people (15.8 percent unemployment versus 8.5 percent for whites). But this isn’t an ideal America, and he didn’t. […]

From TheGrio New York –The struggling economy has left many Americans saddled with bad credit reports, the same reports could also leave them unemployed. Loudy Appolon, a Florida woman is suing the University of Miami for firing her before she could begin her job because of a bad credit report that includes a default on […]