Is unemployment among groups of African American males approaching the crisis level?
New York Senator Charles Schumer thinks it maybe saying in a speech in Buffalo last week that the figures “take your breath away.”
Schumer said one of the most depressing figures is the recent finding that 72 percent of Black men who dropped out of high school are unemployed.
Schumer detailed several plans of his own to address the problem and challenged the presidential candidates to take up the issue and discuss it openly as they continue they bids for the White House.
Among Schumer’s proposals is an expansion of the earned income tax credit to single men so that “work really pays if you don’t have children you are living with but you are still paying your child support.”
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