The worst news from England in quite a while

[fpb]

While 20% of white people between 16 and 24 years of age are unemployed - which is bad enough - 48% of blacks are. Whatever the reason, and whether or not anything can be done to correct it, that means bad trouble to come. And more to the point, there is something essentially wrong with it. A fair society should not put up with a whole section of it being unable to access employment.

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[fpb.livejournal.com]

I guess you will find it on the BBC website, since that is where I heard it. I meant 48% of the 16-24 age range, of course.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

But how many whites that age are not classified as "unemployed" because they're suffering from "disabilities"? "Unemployed" usually means you're still trying to find a job.

(Not that the situation is anything to be happy with.)

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I think the disability benefit scandal is mostly to do with older men, especially those from destroyed industries such as mining, who can no longer even hope to be found jobs.