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December 2011 unemployment rate for whites decreased while it increased for African Americans White male unemployment lowered to 7.1% African American male unemployment lowers to 15.7% White female unemployment lowered to 6.8% while African American female unemployment increased to 13.9% Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics African American unemployment African American unemployment for December 2011 […]

Brazil dam burst forces thousands from homes BBC News Brazilian authorities are trying to evacuate several thousand people after a dam burst in northern Rio de Janeiro state. Water broke through the dam protecting the town of Campos de Goytacazes, opening up a big crater in a highway. Rio and other parts of south-eastern Brazil […]

Unemployment soars among college majors like architecture By Annalyn Censky CNNMoney January 4, 2012 NEW YORK — If you want the best odds of getting a job after graduation, don’t major in architecture. Among recent college grads, architecture majors by far have the highest unemployment rate at 13.9%. That’s according to a new report from […]

George Lucas’ ‘Red Tails’ salutes Tuskegee Airmen By Marco R. della Cava USA TODAY NICASIO, Calif. – George Lucas is many imposing things. Billionaire lord of a sci-fi empire. Passionate early-education philanthropist. Northern California land baron. But drill down to his core and Lucas is still the same fiercely independent kid from rural Modesto who […]

Japan Seen With First Trade Gap Since ‘63 in JPMorgan Outlook By Eleanor Warnock Bloomberg Japan probably recorded its first annual trade deficit since 1963 last year, part of a shift that may see the world’s largest net creditor come to rely on inflows of foreign capital by 2015, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. […]

Wednesday, January 04, 2012   DNCC deposits funds into local minority oriented banks The bulk of the $17 million payment made to the Democratic National Convention Committee is deposited with Charlotte headquartered Bank of America   WTVD ABC 11 Raleigh-Durham     DURHAM, NC — The Democratic National Convention Committee is pumping $4 million into two Durham-based businesses […]

Germany’s unemployment rate drops to record low   By Rachel Rickard Straus This is Money   German unemployment fell to a 20-year low in December, bucking the trend of growing levels of joblessness in the eurozone.   Unemployment fell to 6.8 per cent from 6.9 per cent in November, according to the German Federal Labour […]

Judge Hears Case Over Maryland Funding Of Historical Black Colleges and Universities   Associated Press   BALTIMORE — Attorneys arguing that Maryland’s history of racially-segregated higher education is ongoing used decades-old state reports to try to make their point as a federal trial began.   The Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education […]

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Japan’s population contracts at fastest rate since at least 1947 By Julian Ryall in Tokyo Daily Telegraph The population shrank by 204,000 in 2011 to a total of 126.24 million, according to the health ministry, the sharpest decline since comparable figures were first compiled in 1947. Of the total, nearly 20,000 were victims of the […]