Ajamu Dillahunt on Culture Shocks with Barry Lynn

Barry Lynn, host of the radio show, Culture Shocks, asks: Is the economy better for whites and worse for Blacks? Ajamu Dillahunt, UFE Board member and co-author of State of the Dream 2010: Drained, joins him to discuss the issue of race in the Great Recession.

Original publication: Culture Shocks

Date of publication: 01/21/2010

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"As of December 2009, the African American unemployment rate went above 16%, the Latino unemployment rate is very close to 13%, and that's compared to 9% for white Americans. [...] [W]hat the African American community is facing is more in the order of a depression than a recession. [...]

[I]n places like Michigan and Ohio...the unemployment rate amongst African Americans is expected to exceed 20% this year. [...]

We need a targeted approach to get us out of this bind that we're in now, and we have recommendations for that."

Click here to listen to the show. Scroll forward halfway for the segment with Ajamu Dillahunt.

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