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Black Unemployment Rate Falls Below 10%

PROMISING

First time in eight years.

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Robert Galbraith / Reuters

For the first time since 2007, the unemployment rate for black Americans has fallen below 10 percent. But it is still twice the national average and more than two times the rate for whites. Researchers have found that discrimination plays an obvious role in the distinction, with black applicants not getting called back for interviews as often as white Americans.

Read it at The Wall Street Journal