While the May jobs report showed that the economy added just 69,000 jobs in May, raising the unemployment rate to 8.2 percent, the news is even worse for blacks and Hispanics. For African Americans, the unemployment rate rose from 13 percent in April to 13.6 percent in May. For Hispanics, the numbers were a bit [...]
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