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Transcript: Profile: Unemployment woes for African-Americans in the United States are increasing
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- December 21, 2002
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Profile: Unemployment woes for African-Americans in the United States
are increasing
Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
STEVE INSKEEP, host:
Demonstrators in Venezuela are using harsh words this weekend about
their president, Hugo Chavez. In the next half-hour we will have
an update on a strike that is paralyzing the economy of a major US
oil supplier.
Some Americans face hard economic times of their own. And times may
be get even harder depending on your race. The overall US unemployment
rate is 6 percent, but for black Americans unemployment has now hit
11 percent. To find out what that number really means, NPR's David
Molpus visited ...