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Prepared to do the kind of public policy that will benefit most of the people and certainly african-americans, and so, yes, he is pandering. >> one final point. african-american unemployment is at 16.7%. do you have any idea what the republicans want to do for these americans to get them back to work other than give tax breaks to the rich? >> they don't want to do anything. as a matter of fact, in this same bill that i'm referring to, they just cut the job training programs for the one-stop centers. they're cutting jobs. as they make cuts throughout this budget, which means that they are under...

Congress took no steps to address the 9.1% unemployment rate nationwide. the 16.7% unemployment rate among african-americans. and the 18.1% unemployment rate among workers age 18 to 24 who are trying to get their start in the american workforce. trying to become payers into the social security trust funds which so desperately need the weekly fico taxes from young workers in order to continue the intergenerational compact to provide retirement security to older americans. america is in the merciless grip of an economic crisis but washington is not in crisis mode. washington continues to play it...

The official african-americans, 16.7%. white, 8.0%. the institutional inequality is dash is a civil rights issue. but at the same time, when you rob people of their right to collective bargaining, which -- labor unions are dealing with, that's a civil rights issue. so -- as you said, that weekend that sunday that they are committing dedicating the president will officially dedicate martin luther king themmial. when dr. king died in memphis on a labor marseilling it was a civil rights issue. so yesterday national action, there was a group i lead, joined the naacp and urban league and leading la...

Rate nationwide. the 16.7% unemployment rate among african-americans. and the 18.1% unemployment rate among workers age 18 to 24 who are trying to get their start in the american workforce. trying to become payers into the social security trust funds which so desperately need the weekly fica taxes from young workers in order to continue the intergenerational compact to provide retirement security to older americans. america is in the merciless grip of an economic crisis, but washington is not in crisis mode. washington continues to play its business as usual games. those games delight many of ...

benefits. it's been really at 400 or higher since april. that's really not conducive to cutting the unemployment rate but a good number this week. it fell to 391,000 and that's better than we had expected. another important report, the final read on how fast the economy grew in the second quarter. this is the gdp report. gross domestic product. the sum of everything that this economy puts out and it grew at 1.3%. so, for all those people who are talking about a double-dip recession, this number shows it isn't technically a double dip recession right now. in the second quarter you had...