By Daki Nkanyane Work is never just work. It is how people locate themselves in the world. It is how dignity is expressed, how contribution is...
Skilled migrants are important as a short term intervention for the ailing South African economy. In the long term South Africa should focus on skilling its...
Africa has been urged to increase the volume of trade among each other in order to address the challenge of unemployment in the continent. Senegal’s President,...
A new study released by the Center for Economic and Policy Research shows that recent black college graduates have twice as hard a time gaining employment than...
Creating jobs in the manufacturing sector may be the way to alleviate unemployment in Africa. “In order to create jobs we need to open up the...
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the audience at North Carolina State University., January 15, 2014. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/AP Making good on a promise from last year’s State...
Unemployment rates fell for every major group of Americans last year, the unemployment rate in the United States also dropped to 6.7 percent, the lowest since...
By Tony Elumelu (Reuters) – To Africa’s many challenges, add one more: unemployment. Unemployment, independent of any other factor, threatens to derail the economic promise that...
The African American unemployment rate for November was 12.5 percent, from 13.1 percent in October. The national unemployment rate also dipped, from 7.3 percent to a...
African American unemployment rose slightly to 13.1 percent (from 12.9 recorded in September) and black teen joblessness remained the highest of any group at 36 percent....
The rate of unemployment in the African American community inched upwards from 12.6 percent in July to 13.0 percent in August, according to the latest numbers...
Patrice Motsepe, founder and chairman of African Rainbow Mineral Ltd. PHOTO/Simon Dawson/Getty Images Earlier this year we reported that South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe had pledged...
William “Mo” Cowan. PHOTO/AP The sole Democratic African-American senator cast doubt on the need for a “black agenda” from the president and on its chances of...
Job applicants fill out applications for positions at a new bar and restaurant in Detroit. PHOTO/Paul Sancya/AP U.S. employers added 165,000 jobs in April, and hiring...
(PRNewswire-USNewswire) – Washington DC – On Wednesday morning, April 24 at 9am, the African American Leadership Council will host a press conference at the National Press...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivering the State of The Union Address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington., Feb 12, 2013. PHOTO/Charles...
Robert Johnson (PRNewswire) – Bethesda, MD. – Robert L. Johnson, founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies and founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), yesterday announced...
Job applicants fill out applications for positions at a new bar and restaurant in Detroit. PHOTO/Paul Sancya/AP Employers in the United States added 157,000 jobs in...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Just as President Barack Obama is pushing new initiatives on gun control and immigration, the gloomy old problem of a sluggish...
Job applicants fill out applications for positions at a new bar and restaurant in Detroit. PHOTO/Paul Sancya/AP African-American unemployment continued to rise despite an increase in...
Job applicants fill out applications for positions at a new bar and restaurant in Detroit. PHOTO/Paul Sancya/AP The US economy is growing again, but African-American women...
Job applicants fill out applications for positions at a new bar and restaurant in Detroit. PHOTO/Paul Sancya/AP U.S. employers added 171,000 jobs in October and hiring...
Job applicants fill out applications for positions at a new bar and restaurant in Detroit. PHOTO/Paul Sancya/AP The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent last...
Jamaica Prime Minister.,Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/File Jamaica’s prime minister Portia Simpson-Miller is calling on private companies in the Caribbean country to each hire at least one more...
Jamaica posted an unemployment rate of 14.3 percent (representing approximately 180,000 peop) in April 2012. The rate of unemployment is the highest posted since January 2000....
The unemployment rate in Trinidad & Tobago fell to 4.2 percent in the last quarter of 2011, according to a report from Trinidad’s Central Statistical Office....
In a sign that the economy is still in the early stages of recovery, the African-American unemployment rate in July dipped slighty to 14.1 percent, from...
Latest job numbers from Barbados indicate that unemployment jumped to nearly 12 percent in the first quarter of 2012, pushing past the 10 percent mark recorded...
Jamal Randle, from left, Loren Cowling, and Dave Jackson fill out applications for positions at a new bar and restaurant in Detroit, Sept. 25, 2009. PHOTO/Paul...
U.S. President Barack Obama on the campaign trail. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama, with the help of a slowly improving US economy, is gaining ground in many...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File The construction industry and state and local governments are among the biggest drags on the nation’s economic recovery, President Obama said...
Jamal Randle, from left, Loren Cowling, and Dave Jackson fill out applications for jobs Sept. 25, 2009. PHOTO/Paul Sancya/AP Photo The benefits of the economic recovery...
(Barbados Nation) – The government of Barbados is reporting a significant drop in unemployment. In leading off debate in the House of Assembly on the 2012-2013...
Official unemployment for African-Americans exceeded 17 percent in January 2010, nearly twice that of whites and 6 points higher than the nation as a whole. As...
The latest data from the Barbados Statistical service indicate that the rate of unemployment in Barbados is 12.5 percent – there has been an increase in...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is going on the offense Tuesday, raising pressure on congressional Republicans to extend the payroll tax cut and...
The recession and continuing economic downturn have been devastating to the American middle class as a whole, the two and a half years since the declared...
Six Democratic mayors were joined by a Republican mayor in urging President Barack Obama and Congress to work together to create jobs and rebuild the nation’s...
NBC NEWS - After the bruising debt-ceiling fight -- as well as Standard & Poor's subsequent downgrade of the nation's credit rating -- Obama's job approval...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hiring picked up slightly in the U.S. in July and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.1 percent, an optimistic sign after the worst...
In the case of a working parent who was once emotionally distant and consumed by work, staying home during unemployment may have positive effects on the...
