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Unemployment rate for african-americans is reaching a 25-year high, it is 15.5% and rising, and that means that the people who are going to be impacted by layoffs, for example, particularly on the public sector, are going to be minorities. minorities make up one fourth of the federal workforce. they did that because they figured that if they could work for the federal government, that would be a less likely opportunity for somebody to discriminate against them. >> well, one of the -- one of the columns praising what ryan has done has come from david brooks and the new york times today. his poi...