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lutefisk

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Thu Mar 26, 2015, 01:07 PM Mar 2015

Scott Walker's Wisconsin is worst in nation for African-American unemployment at 19.9%

Just a few days after the release of a study by the Pew Charitable Trust showing Wisconsin to be the worst state in the nation in terms of a shrinking middle class, a report by the Economic Policy Institute came out showing Wisconsin is the worst in the nation in terms of African-American unemployment. In Scott Walker's Wisconsin the African American unemployment rate is 19.9%, the worst of the 50 states. This is Scott Walker's real record after forcing a far right agenda on Wisconsin through radical, economy wrecking policies.

"In 2014, black unemployment rates were highest in Wisconsin (19.9 percent)... between 2013 and 2014 the black unemployment rate significantly increased in Missouri (3.2 percentage points) and Wisconsin (4.8 percentage points)"


Link to the report by the Economic Policy Institute
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Scott Walker's Wisconsin is worst in nation for African-American unemployment at 19.9% (Original Post) lutefisk Mar 2015 OP
Are all the moronic voters who put him Lifelong Protester Mar 2015 #1
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