Reeling Detroit And Black Workers

From The New York Times: As the Detroit automobile companies stuggle for survival, African-American workers, "who occupy most rungs of the car production ladder, from plant workers to white-collar employees to auto suppliers and car dealers," are suffering siginificant job losses. Through November of this year approximately 20,000 black auto workers lost their jobs in the period commencing with the recession beginning in December 2007. Black unemployment nationally rose to 11.2 percent in November (compared to a national unemployment rate of 6.7 percent).