President's Economic Strategy Considers Needs of Blacks, Say Aides

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"Today, we saw that the unemployment rate has generally gone up 8.1 percent," she said. "However, before today, the African-American unemployment rate was 12.6 percent." Further, "over 95 percent of public school kids are African-American, so focusing on public education is [just as] critical."

"We've had several meetings with unions that have not traditionally been as open and inclusive in their memberships, who now realize that if they're going to do projects in cities, they're going to have a mechanism for training and bringing in people."

"It was the crux of the first leg of the president's economic strategy," said [Rahm Emanuel], who went on to say that the [Barack Obama] administration is now in the economic agenda's second phase which leans toward the budget.

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President's Economic Strategy Considers Needs of Blacks, Say Aides

WASHINGTON (NNPA)-President Barack Obama told supporters in the waning weeks of his election campaign that once he got to the White House he would hit the ground running in order to stabilize the economy and put ...

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