Unemployment By Race, Gender, Class

By Chris Good
At his Atlantic Correspondents blog, Richard Florida breaks down Friday's unemployment numbers by race, gender, and class. Construction and extraction workers (19.7 percent), black men (16.8 percent), production workers (15.6 percent), and those without a high school diploma (15.5 percent) have it worst, Florida finds.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/06/unemployment-by-race-gender-class/18871/