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"What's Goin' On!" - Legendary Motown soul music singer and songwriter Marvin Gaye was born in 1939 in Washington, D.C.

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NorthStar News Bulletin

Black Unemployment Hits 13.3%

POSTED: April 03, 2009, 8:53 am

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released unemployment figures for March. The nation lost 663,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate now stands at 8.5 percent. Since the beginning of the recession in 2007, 5.1 million jobs have been lost. Black unemployment is now 13.3 percent. Follow NorthStarNews.com for continuing coverage.

Related References

books
- Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics 2008
  Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data
media
organizations
documents
- African Americans and Home Ownership Brief
  One of the foremost Black think tanks looks at home ownership among Blacks in the United States
- Memo on Poverty, 1964
  A presidential memo from 1964 that looks at the issue of poverty at the height of the War on Poverty
- 2007 Annual Jobs Report
- Declining Employment Among Young Black Men
  A look at the challenges facing young Black men in the labor market
- 2006 Annual Jobs Report

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