Over the past last century America has had numerous economic recoveries. However, black unemployment numbers are consistently almost double that of whites. This hour we look into why this gap exists and what it means for our society.
Guests:
Connie M. Razza, Director of Strategic Research in Economic Justice, Center for Popular Democracy
Suzanne Coleman-Tolbert, President & CEO, Central Ohio Workforce Investment Corporation
Matt Martin, senior researcher at the Kirwan Institute for the study of Race and Ethnicity
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Prof. of Sociology at U-Mass Amherst, co-author of Documenting Desegregation: Racial and Gender Segregation in Private-Sector Employment Since the Civil Rights Act