l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 1 Obama's Economy Hard on Youth, Unemployment Hits 16.1% »
The June jobs report shows that 195,000 new jobs were created, keeping the
national unemployment rate at 7.6%. Wall Street and national economists
expected that new jobs would hit 165,000, so the extra 30,000 more jobs than
expected is a welcome surprise.
But is this just another short-term gain for the U.S. economy? According to
the national non-partisan you advocacy organizations, Generation
Opportunity, the unemployment rate for 18-29 year olds is at a staggering 16
.1%.
The group announced these numbers in their Millennial Jobs Report for June
2013, which also reported that in the same age group, the unemployment rate
for African-Americans is 23.7%, 13.2% for Hispanics, and 11.6% for women |
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