Martin Luther King Jr. Was Right About Unemployment.

COMMENTARY: Count Them. Then Hire Them.

Three weeks before he was killed, Martin Luther King Jr. stood up in a high school gym in Michigan and argued with a number. It was March 1968. The government said unemployment in the Black community was 8.8 percent. King said it was almost twice that. Not because anybody was cooking the books. The country felt good about jobs that spring. The national unemployment rate was 3.6 percent, near the lowest since the Korean War. Washington called tha…

Martin Luther King Jr. Was Right About Unemployment.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Three weeks before he was killed, Martin Luther King Jr. stood up in a high school gym in Michigan and argued with a number.  The July jobs report says he was right. It was March of 1968. The government said unemployment in the Black community was 8.8 percent. King said it was almost twice that. Not because anybody was cooking the books. The country felt good about jobs that spring. The national unemployment rate was 3.6 percen…

COMMENTARY: Count Them. Then Hire Them. – The Windy City Word

Three weeks before he was killed, Martin Luther King Jr. stood up in a high school gym in Michigan and argued with a number. It was March 1968. The government said unemployment in the Black community was 8.8 percent. King said it was almost twice that. Not because anybody was cooking the books. The country felt good about jobs that spring. The national unemployment rate was 3.6 percent, near the lowest since the Korean War. Washington called tha…