Black-White Gap in Jobless Rate Widens in New York City - NYTimes.com

Black-White Gap in Jobless Rate Widens in New York City - NYTimes.com:
By PATRICK McGEEHAN and MATHEW R. WARREN
Published: July 12, 2009

"Unemployment among blacks in New York City has increased much faster than for whites, and the gap appears to be widening at an accelerating pace, new studies of jobless data have found.

While unemployment rose steadily for white New Yorkers from the first quarter of 2008 through the first three months of this year, the number of unemployed blacks in the city rose four times as fast, according to a report to be released on Monday by the city comptroller’s office. By the end of March, there were about 80,000 more unemployed blacks than whites, according to the report, even though there are roughly 1.5 million more whites than blacks here."

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