December 9, 2009 -
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America MediaThe bad news is that the more than one out of three young blacks out of
work matches the figure for joblessness at the peak of the 1930s Great
Depression. The worse news is that the jobless figure for young blacks,
especially young black males, is not much different from what it was
even before the economic meltdown. During the Clinton era economic
boom, the unemployment rate for young black males was double -- and in