LABOR: Better Jobs for Blacks

LABOR Better Jobs for Blacks Of all the indicators of racial inequality, none cause more concern than the proportionate share of unemployment between blacks and whites. Ever since 1953, there have been at least two blacks out of work for every jobless white. To compound the problem, blacks have usually been the last hired and the first fired, particularly during a recession. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the old formula is changing slightly. While the number of unemployed Americans rose last year by 1,200,000, to a total of 4,000,000,...