Unemployment Of African-Americans

African-Americans are considered the poorest group of people in United States, as we saw in the Poverty, Class and Race chapter that they are among the poorest people. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has shown a decrease in unemployment both nationwide and in Ohio, but the rate of unemployment for African American people is almost twice when compared to that of whites. This difference in the rates has been going for the last 50 years and it is still a big problem for the nation. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, looking at the employment rate for 2015 and 2016, the unemployment rate for the Whites in August 2015/2016 and July 2016 was 4.5%, which include both males and females. On the other hand the unemployment rate for the African …show more content…
Due to no jobs, sometimes their children start working at a very young age, this diverts their focus from studies towards earning for their family. Lack of education is also a major reason behind the unemployment of African American, children don’t go to schools as they need to work to earn money, or their parents can’t afford to buy them some stuff that require for school. There are very chances that a person will get a good job without any kind of educational degree or certificate, this leads to people doing labor jobs some of them seasonal, so the employers hire people as they need them, once they are done with the work they no longer keep the people and ask them to find some other place to work so again comes the problem of …show more content…
A lot of these people are unaware of some benefits that they have access to, such as the Food Stamps also known as SNAPS these days, public transport, medical insurance and many more. So in order to spread awareness about these services, government should take some initiative and spread the word out for these services so that the African American can use these services and be benefited from