The jobless rate among black college graduates is nearly double that of whites. Why?
By: Jean McGianni Celestin
For years, Americans have been told that going to college was the best protection against unemployment. That hasn't been the case for African Americans during the Great Recession, with a jobless rate nearly double that of their white counterparts. And experts say the gap could widen in the slow recovery. Black Americans have long suffered the highest unemployment rate of any ethnic group in the country, and this recession has only exacerbated a long-standing divergence...[continued]
