Twin Cities' 'Shameful Little Secret' Exposed (Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder)
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Minneapolis’ Black population, less than a third that of the city’s White population, is more than three times as likely to be unemployed according to a recent study. And St. Paul is no better.
Released in June by the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute, a think tank that focuses on working conditions in America, the study points out that the Minneapolis-St. Paul unemployment rate is 20.4 for Blacks and 6.6 percent for Whites. This 13.8 percent differential is the highest among U.S. metropolitan areas.