Black 8.8% jobless rate more than double white rate

Black 8.8% jobless rate more than double white rate

(CNSNews.com) — For February, the national unemployment rate was 4.9 percent, but for whites alone it was 4.3 percent and for Blacks it was 8.8 percent, more than double the rate of whites, according to the latest data available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Asians had the lowest unemployment rate at 3.8 percent, and Hispanics' unemployment rate in February was 5.4 percent.

Whites make up 77.4 percent of the population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Blacks comprise 13.2 percent of the population, Hispanics 17.4 percent, and Asians 5.4 percent.

The savagely anti-Catholic sitcom
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The savagely anti-Catholic sitcom

L. Brent Bozell and Tim Graham

When Disney and ABC decided to make a sitcom based on the teenage years of hatemongering columnist Dan Savage, anyone could guess this was going to be a religion-bashing extravaganza.

Now the show is here. It's called "The Real O'Neals," which is an odd title, since they couldn't have manufactured a more wooden set of caricatured Catholics, who are both wildly dysfunctional and shallower than a thimble.

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