{"308441":{"#nid":"308441","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Boston on Black Unemployment","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.inta.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/thomas-danny-boston\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EThomas \u201cDanny\u201d Boston\u003C\/a\u003E, professor of economics in \u003Cstrong\u003EThe Sam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/strong\u003E said the jobs report issued July 3 by the U.S. Labor Department contains several signs the economy continues to improve. The report (accessible \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.nr0.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E) indicates the nation\u2019s unemployment rate should dip into the 5 percent range within the next month.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe unemployment rate among black continue to decline, which Boston writes is a positive indicator as unemployment among blacks is particularly intractable.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Last month it declined by almost a full percentage point, from 11.5 percent to 10.7 percent. Employment gains among blacks have always trailed gains of every other demographic group. So when their rate shows improvement, rates among other groups have already recovered.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2014-07-14 13:32:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:11","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"middlebury","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/saportareport.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/black-employment-gains-a-sign-of-economic-recovery-ga-tech-professor-says\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-07-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-07-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"780","name":"employment"},{"id":"961","name":"recession"},{"id":"11694","name":"Recovery"},{"id":"962","name":"unemployment"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}