As the Black unemployment rate leaped another eight percentage points last month - from 10.6 percent to 11.4 percent, the White unemployment rate actually remained the same - at 5.4 percent, less than half the rate for Blacks.

''We're in a weaker financial position related to the mainstream in the first place,'' said Alfred A. Edmond, Jr., editor-in-chief of BlackEnterprise.com, in an interview with the NNPA News Service. "The saying goes, 'when the rest of America gets a cold, Black America gets pneumonia." READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE BY CLICKING THE LINK BELOW:

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