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What ya' think joko. Has your poll been gamed?
Because it is a public poll the number of real votes can be seen.
What ya' think joko. Has your poll been gamed?
Refusal to relocate also factors in it would seem. However, that may be human nature in general. If no/low skilled, unemployed and in Detroit, is there any reason so stay there? Other than social/family connections and - I suppose - that is where social benefits checks come to?
What is also notable is that...Multiple choice, public poll
The unemployment rate of African Americans remains at least double that of whites and is the highest unemployment demographic. The overall economic gap remains as great.
What is most notable is that there has been NO improvement for 5 decades.
What benefits have significantly increased since the mid-1960s, when all those charts start? Welfare benefits have barely increased, and the Clinton-era reforms pretty much ended "lifetime welfare."Every increasing social, benefits and welfare programs
A portion of it is also because as the descendants of slaves, African-Americans lost all their family ties, culture, material wealth and freedom before they came here. However, recent African immigrants are here by choice (or at least, on the same terms as other immigrants), they're educated, they're motivated, yet they still get the shaft.So... what is the reason(s) unemployment remains so high for African-Americans?
Those communities don't have any leadership to speak of. If you're looking for someone to blame, you should wonder why the successful African-Americans and the NAACP aren't doing more to help the underclass.
Some, many or most jobs operate of a political culture. Favoritism, who sucks up the best, who does the boss have a crush on, dare I say who sleeps with the boss, who plays golf with the boss, who has dirt on the company that could land the owner in jail, etc.; very often matter more than job performance. Some places being the wrong race plays a role on who gets hired, promoted and given raises albeit unofficially, of course.
Because we have a larger culture of individualism, which in many cases results in a "Screw you, I got mine" mentality.