Unemployment

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February 17, 2012
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A judge will soon decide whether to grant thousands of black employees and job applicants…
February 16, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of people seeking unemployment benefits in the U.S. fell to the lowest point in almost…
February 7, 2012
BET reports that a close adviser to President Obama believes the administration is cautiously optimistic, despite the decline in black…
February 6, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - President Obama and Mitt Romney are sounding more and more like they are already in the midst…
February 3, 2012
theGRIO REPORT- While the Great Recession has made the situation considerably worse, black unemployment has consistently lagged the rest of…
February 3, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The drop in unemployment to 8.3 percent in January is the latest bit of positive economic news…
February 3, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - African-American unemployment fell significantly for the first time in three months, going from 15.8 to 13.6 percent.…
January 24, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - President Obama's proposals in the State of the Union address may do little to address immediately the…
January 19, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits plummeted last week to 352,000, the fewest since April 2008...
January 9, 2012
From Cleveland: WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Beneficiaries without a high school degree or GED would have to work toward that diploma to…
January 6, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Obama administration officials are hoping that its plan, dubbed Summer Jobs +, will reach other young people…
January 6, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Is the economy improving fast enough to boost President Obama's chances of winning in November?...
January 6, 2012
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (AP) - Republican front-runner Mitt Romney has another emerging contender as he hopes to challenge President Barack…
January 6, 2012
(AP) Employers added a net 200,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent, the lowest since…
January 5, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The Obama administration announced Thursday its plan to create 250,000 teen 'employment opportunities' this summer...
December 23, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - New research indicates that fewer Americans are getting married than ever. Although for African-American women the marriage…
December 13, 2011
Fox News, the conservative news outlet, aired a misleading unemployment chart that masked the dip in the jobless rate...
December 12, 2011
CLUTCH - The unemployment rate for black women increased from 12.6 percent to 12.9 percent last month representing a loss…
December 9, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Setting a new bar for the nation's economy, President Barack Obama said the United States unemployment rate…
December 5, 2011
VIDEO - The unemployment rate fell sharply to 8 point 6 percent in November as 120-thousand jobs were created...