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A Troubled Age: Tough Times For NYC Youth

When New York City public schools let out next week, the tests will have just begun for many teens, who will face rising crime and the weakest young adult job…

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Economy In Depth

Union Unity Tested By Wage Fight

As the city studies the impact of “living wages,” it’s unclear whether wounds have healed from a split last fall between trade and service workers’ unions.

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Rates and Race: The Fed And Black Workers

The Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful forces in the American economy. This City Limits web extra asks whether its policies help or hurt the black unemployed.

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Stimulus Seen Failing Jobless Blacks

As City Limits Magazine looks at the crisis of black unemployment, this web exclusive examines how the federal stimulus bill has—and hasn’t—helped.

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The New Dream

In January and February the national unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent— lower than in late 2009. That was seen as a sign that the economy was rounding the…

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ARTS and CULTURE Economy

Now What?

In the lobby of STRIVE, an employment-training program in East Harlem, the messages are clear, stated in a bold, black font on posters that greet the overwhelmingly black and Latino…

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Where It Hurts

In the Far Rockaway neighborhood of Queens on a slate gray Friday in February, the food pantry at St. Gertrude the Great was devoid of clients. The woman working there,…

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ARTS and CULTURE Economy Housing and Homelessness Justice

The Search for the Smoking Gun

During four decades of debate over the causes of black-male joblessness and unemployment, there have been two broad schools of thought. There were those who blamed the problem on the…

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Like A Canyon

Just north of 125th Street, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture displays a timeline of black political activism. The familiar faces— Garvey, DuBois, King, Malcolm X, Jackson— are…