September 7, 2010. “This Labor Day report shows some of the highest unemployment, underemployment, long-term unemployment and largest gaps between white and minority employment that we have ever seen.” –Center for Research and Labor Studies.
FIU gives downcast labor report on state of Florida’s workforce
By Jeff Harrington
September 6, 2010
Researchers at Florida International University are overflowing with numbing numbers that illustrate the Great Recession’s destructive force.
Like 15.4 percent, the average unemployment rate last year for African-Americans. Or 37 percent, the percentage of long-term jobless still hunting for work after six months.
Or this number that sticks out: 918,000.
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