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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (5154)	9/20/2005 9:24:30 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

Bush Doesn't Care About Blacks - here's proof The unemployment rate for African Americans increased to 10.9% under Bush. The unemployment rate for African Americans increased from 8.2% when Bush took office, to 10.9% by July 2004 – a 33% increase. [Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Jan. 2001 and July 2004, and April 2000] Under Bush, African-American job loss has outpaced white job loss. While the unemployment rate for whites edged up 1.2 points under Bush (from 3.6 to 4.8%), the African-American unemployment rate increased 2.7 points (from 8.2 to 10.9%). [Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Jan. 2001 and July 2004] Under Bush, unemployment rate for African American youth climbs to 32.6%. Nearly 1 in 3 African American youth who are actively seeking jobs are unemployed today; a huge jump from just a few years ago. African-American teen unemployment had hit a low of 19.9% under Clinton. Today the unemployment rate for black teens is 32.6% compared to 14.8% for their white counterparts; a gap of nearly 18 points. [Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics] Even those who are working are earning less. “’Recent trends in real wage income remain very disappointing,’ lamented Stephen S. Roach, chief economist at Morgan Stanley, in a June 7 memo to clients. ‘This, in my view, underscores one of the most serious shortcomings of this recovery -- an unprecedented shortfall [in] personal income growth, wages and salaries.” [Source: Washington Post, 6/23/04] Bush requested no funding for urban empowerment zones. The Empowerment Zone-Enterprise Communities program provides federal funding to business enterprises and cultural institutions that are willing to establish themselves in economically depressed regions, and is credited with helping to revitalize New York City’s Harlem and Chicago’s Bronzeville, for example. In 2003, President Bush failed to request any funding for the program. [American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Nation's Cities Weekly, 2/10/03; Associated Press, 11/18/02] Under Bush, Up to 700,000 More African Americans Now Live in Poverty. US Census Bureau data indicate that during the Bush presidency, the national poverty rate increased to 12.1% and the percentage of African Americans in poverty rose from 22.7% in 2001 to 24.1% in 2002. This was the first increase in African American poverty in a decade. According to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “Increases in poverty were largest among blacks…. The number of blacks who were poor increased by 500,000 or 700,000, depending on which definitional category of blacks is used.” [US Census Bureau; Poverty 2002; Center on Budget and Policy Priorities]