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Black Unemployment Rising

Published December 10, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

New Labor Dept statistics released this week reveal that while unemployment among whites remained relatively constant rising from 5.1% to 5.2 percent, the rate for blacks rose even further, from 9.8 percent to percent.

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