Tagged: pervasive discrimination

“‘America is coming back,’ President Obama declared late last month, touting strong job creation and rising wages. ‘We’ve risen from recession.’ But for Ferguson, Missouri – and black America as a whole – the recovery still hasn’t come. ‘Black unemployment rates are still at the height of the national unemployment rates during the Great Recession,’ the Center for Popular Democracy’s Connie Razza told msnbc. ‘We’re still in a recession in black America.'”

Source: Jane C. Timm. “Economic Recovery? Not For Ferguson or Black America.” msnbc. March 13, 2015. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/economic-recovery-not-ferguson-and-black-america.