We Are Not In This Together

This article is missing alot of key facts to seem unbiased.
Missing Whites without college or highschool education. Whites age 16 and up.
This is also kind of offensive by making it seem like there isn't enough minorities with Highschool or even College degrees to make a statistic of their unemployment.

After reading the various comments dose anyone care about anyone? We need more advance thinking on this problem regardless of race. America needs more jobs and compassion. What did we do for AIG, Wall Street the Banks and GM? Why not people who lost their jobs and homes?

We need a bottom line program to pull up the rear. What will it take? Education and training are the key components. We need to promote new green jobs for minorities. Although we have an African-American president we still have a race problem with employment and prisons that must be studied and constructively addressed by responsible business and community leaders. Perhaps the camber of commerce can look at this problem packaged with an agenda urban. What dose the GOP want to do to help in this matter.

It's not my problem these men have no skills. People with skills and credentials obtain work in in-demand professions. That is why they are still employed. Stop pointing out the obvious and move onto more important issues.

Have you tried to support yourself, or a family, on $0.00 an hour? No, its impossible. The minimum wage has proven to increase unemployment and poverty numerous times. There are more efficient methods of eliminating poverty, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Also, let me dispel the myth that all these minimum wage workers are supporting themselves. Most minimum wage workers have an average family income of $43,000. <http://www.weeklystandard.com/content/public/articles/000/000/012/592klkms.asp>

My sincere idea please be conveyed to US & Global Industrial, financial and other business organizations, that to "keep Hiring rather than Firing" the employees, just by estimation & costing the amount that may be required to save by lay-off of employee,; is it not a better solution that all of us feel our social responsibilities and share the same amount in very small reduction in salaries temporarily up till the respective organization stands in a better position and will be able to compensate the temporary scarifications of all of the employee just for saving the jobs of their colleagues in critical period.
Any how, that's why I say also say that 'Public Private Partnership' (3Ps) i.e. shared -economy is a better system of Capitalism, Regulated & 'Controlled-Capitalism' , instead of unregulated & 'Un-Controlled Capitalism' which in free-economy leads to large-scale privatization resulting to economic-control in few hands .

3Ps shared economy is the requisite base for 'Regulated-Capitalism' or 'Controlled-Capitalism'. Public industrial & business organization leads positive to a healthy-competition favorable for 'Pace-of-economy' even market-economy, government check & balance studies, development of public policies, and development of better regulations to private sector, as well.

There is discrimination in the workplace. There has always been. I know before I sit down if I will get hired. Some interviewers just can't seem to hide their feelings about my race.I have been discriminated against many times. And it is not due to paranoia. This is why I am a US citizen (born and raised in small town America) who is a contractor in other countries of the world. I have a bachelors degree (decided not to go broke wasting money on an MBA)...I have great credentials...several years of experience...I know how to speak clearly in an interview...and best of all, the employer doesn't have to see me before they hire me in most cases. I get hired based on my credentials and not how I look. I have been on many interviews. I found away that works for me which might now work for all minorities. I didn't sit back and let some ignorant hiring manager prevent me from getting ahead. I will say this, though, If you're not a minority and you're not rich, don't speak for minorities.

There is discrimination in the workplace. There has always been. I know before I sit down if I will get hired. Some interviewers just can't seem to hide their feelings about my race.I have been discriminated against many times. And it is not due to paranoia. This is why I am a US citizen (born and raised in small town America) who is a contractor in other countries of the world. I have a bachelors degree (decided not to go broke wasting money on an MBA)...I have great credentials...several years of experience...I know how to speak clearly in an interview...and best of all, the employer doesn't have to see me before they hire me in most cases. I get hired based on my credentials and not how I look. I have been on many interviews. I found away that works for me which might now work for all minorities. I didn't sit back and let some ignorant hiring manager prevent me from getting ahead. I will say this, though, If you're not a minority and you're not rich, don't speak for minorities.

thinker...you're not a thinker. if you actually read instead of listening to another idiot, you'd know that it's comparable--education wise, etc. for the same amount of skill, education, and background, it's the same for us. how about spending a year as a black professional--by the way red necks are still the majority of folks in prisons. oh yeah, and the teenage pregnancy rate has been increasing fast in the white community. so keep your insults to yourself and instead of being a thinker, become a reader. you'd be surprised what would happen if you opened more than one book.

NO SURPRISE HERE! We so called "minorities" are always hit the hardest in anything.

28.5 percent of African-American males will likely spend time in state or federal prisons. So of course the unemployment rate will be higher for black males - most employers will hire the non-felon over the felon any day of the week.

You guys are trying to stir something up out of nothing. Why wouldn't a company hold on to someone that has a college degree over someone who does not? If going to college doesn't get you better job security, what is the point of going? Your message should be loud and clear: Go To College and Get Better Job Security. Race has nothing to do with this, and if I'm wrong why aren't African American or Hispanic males with college degrees mentioned in this article. Comparing those statistics would be unbiased or comparing white men without college degrees to minorities without college degrees. Seriously, you are creating more pessimism and anger in people, when you should be working to build people up and better their lives through education.

You guys are trying to stir something up out of nothing (why wouldn't a company hold on to someone with a college degree over someone who doesn't have one) and you are going to cause far more detriment and anger among people than come anywhere close to helping the situation. Your message should be loud and clear: Go to College, Better yourself, and You'll have better job security!

People need to adapt to a changing world, regardless of race or gender. The economy has steadily been moving away from manual jobs as technology decreases the need for them. For that reason, people have gone to community colleges, universities, trade schools, and apprenticeship programs to learn the skills necessary to obtain a job that is still necessary. If you find that your skills as a carpenter are no longer paying the bills, take a community college course on computer systems and enable yourself to enter a new field. The fact that men are losing jobs at higher rates than women is purely because many male dominated fields are losing relevance in today's economy. This is not a "dirty secret". It's a fact that is extremely logical and predictable. The answer is to help educate these people so they can start different careers. Not harp on the fact that their old jobs no longer exist or which segments of the population are hit the hardest.