Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Unemployment among black youths soars, IPPR report says

Almost 50% of black people aged between 16 and 24 are unemployed, compared with 20% of young white peopleYoung black girl standing at a Jobpoint computer terminal which lists available vacancies of the same age, a think tank has said.

The left-leaning Institute for Public Policy Research says unemployment among black people rose from 35% in March 2008 to 48% in November 2009.

It rose from 12% to 20% among young white people during the same period.

The IPPR's report comes on the day the latest official unemployment figures are due to be published.  Read more...


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