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Per the 2010 Census, SC has the 5th largest African American population, nearly 29 percent. Given this fact, it is diffcult to believe SC is the 3rd worst state for African American job seekers out of 50 states.
Per the 2010 Census, SC has the 5th largest African American population, nearly 29 percent. Given this fact, it is diffcult to believe SC is the 3rd worst state for African American job seekers out of 50 states.
If you go back to the initial post, and the link within, it is specifically percentage of African-Americans unemployed. So it wouldn't matter if SC was highest in African-American population.
The title of the article and this topic should have been SC Has the 3rd Highest African American Unemployment Rate.
If the premise is that 47 states are better for African Americans to get work, it seems that many of the unemployed AFrican Americans would have left SC to get those jobs in other states, and SC's black population would be much lower than 29%. Generally to stay employed at an income you can live with, you have to be willing to move to where the work is, regardless of your race.
I also took the topic title to include African Americans not currently in SC who are trying to get a job in SC vs other states.
There isn't a wall around SC's labor market, people can seek jobs outside the state, and people outside the state can apply to jobs in the state.
A friend of mine from SC shared this article with me today. Comes as no surprise to me but I am sure others will chime in. SC ranked 3rd worst state for African American job seekers....only behind Michigan and California.
Here is the first paragraph:
South Carolina has the second lowest African American unemployment rate in the nation, led only by Virginia. In the third quarter of 2014, the African American unemployment rate in South Carolina was 8.7 percent. The white unemployment rate was 5.3 percent, according to a new Economic Policy Institute analysis from Valerie Wilson, EPI Director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy. Further, South Carolina and Ohio were the only two states where the African American unemployment rate has reached its pre-recession level.
This is even more impressive if you consider SC has the 14th largest black population by number in the country which means there are thousands more black people working in SC than a state with a smaller black population and similar black unemployment rate.
Here is the first paragraph:
South Carolina has the second lowest African American unemployment rate in the nation, led only by Virginia. In the third quarter of 2014, the African American unemployment rate in South Carolina was 8.7 percent. The white unemployment rate was 5.3 percent, according to a new Economic Policy Institute analysis from Valerie Wilson, EPI Director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy. Further, South Carolina and Ohio were the only two states where the African American unemployment rate has reached its pre-recession level.
This is even more impressive if you consider SC has the 14th largest black population by number in the country which means there are thousands more black people working in SC than a state with a smaller black population and similar black unemployment rate.
SC isn't the worst, but it definitely could be better; certainly not 2nd best anymore.
I can almost guarantee you one of these reports is likely wrong or they're using different definitions of what it means to be employed or the who's available for employment. The reason is that there is no measure of employment that has changed that dramatically from 2013/2014 to 2015.... Especially not getting worse. Things have generally been getting better in the employment front in most areas since then except for the oil/energy industry obviously.
Last edited by Bouje2; 03-05-2016 at 06:38 AM..
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