It was a busy week in Washington. Within 24 hours of Republicans announcing an agreement to raise the nation’s $16.4 trillion debt limit, the U.S. Department of Labor released its latest employment report showing jobless claims falling to a five-year low. Jobless claims The latest jobless claims report shows the number of applications in the [...]
Black Unemployment Still Twice That of Whites
December 16, 2012 | Posted by
In the quarter-century that Armentha Cruise has run her Silver Spring staffing firm, the nation has made strides toward racial equality. Voters have twice elected a black president, African Americans shine among Hollywood’s brightest stars, and the number of blacks who graduate from college has tripled. But this stubborn fact remains: The African American jobless [...]
Ghana’s Booming Economy Not Creating Enough Jobs
May 10, 2012 | Posted by
The irony of life in Ghana, under the Better Ghana agenda, is that of a booming economy that has failed to support the citizenry. The economy is supposed to be among the fastest growing in the world. Inflation has remained in single digit for nearly three years, and the foreign reserve is said to be [...]
