Vlad TV reports:
According to a report by Fox News, a startling new piece of statistics reveal that 92% of black youth in Chicago are unemployed. While the overall trend of dropping employment rates for all race-ethnic groups continued through 2012, black teens had the lowest employment rates across all geographic areas.
Statistics show that in 2012, “only 16 out of 100 black teens in Illinois were employed and only 11 out of 100 black teens in the city of Chicago were employed.” Black male teens, in particular, faced challenges in their ability to obtain employment in the U.S., Illinois and the city of Chicago. Black male teens in Chicago experienced the bleakest employment rates with the number of “black male teens with jobs dropping from 10% in 2006 to 8% in 2012. A startling 92% of all black males ages 16-19 in Chicago were jobless in 2012.”
Minority, low-income teens continued to “face more challenges in obtaining employment with Blacks and Hispanics experiencing significantly lower rates of employment than other race-ethnic groups.” Across the nation in 2012, only 13% of black teens from low-income households were employed and “slightly less than 16% of low-income Hispanic teens had jobs.”
During their report, Fox News interviewed a fortunate 19-year-old student who has two part time jobs. “It’s a very shocking number. If anybody else see them numbers, like, hopefully they come together, and be like, we need to do something,” said Dvante King.
