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Working twice as hard to get half as far: Race-based employment gap in Minnesota

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:47 — Dave Culver
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Race & Ethnicity
  • The Twin Cities metro area has the biggest disparity in black-white unemployment rates of any major metropolitan area in the country.
  • What is going on here?
  • Racism in Minnesota (and Beyond)

Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet | MN

The Twin Cities metro area has the biggest disparity in black-white unemployment rates of any major metropolitan area in the country. What is going on here?

That's the question addressed by Dr. Algernon Austin, author of the Economic Policy Issues brief that presented the research on national disparities in unemployment by race. He spoke at a "leadership session" organized by the Alliance for Metropolitan Stability at in St. Paul on September 1.

Austin sliced, diced and dissected the numbers from a dozen studies, and came up with three reasons for the disparity.

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Related:

Racism in Minnesota (and Beyond), Jeff Nygaard, Nygaard Notes

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