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Article Excerpt
A white person with a criminal record is more likely to get a job than a black person who doesn't have one. It's just one of the contributors to the high unemployment rate for black people nationally and in Illinois.
According to the latest unemployment estimates, released in March, the national unemployment rate jumped to 8.5 percent, the highest in more than two decades, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and The Associated Press. The rate, however, for black people was 13.3 percent, according to the bureau.
The same group that has always been hit hardest in Illinois remains African Americans. The Chicago Reporter analyzed nearly three decades of unemployment statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and found:
* In Illinois, black people have had the highest unemployment rates since 1981, when the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began separately reporting black, Hispanic...
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