FSTV Newswire - July 7th, 2011: Unemployment and Race in America

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Channel: Free Speech TV · 2011 · News & Politics

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Jobs -- and how to create more of them -- has become the primary talking point for politicians from local city halls to the White House. This comes amid recent figures that showed weaker than expected job growth and a persistently high unemployment rate of 9.7 percent nationwide. But Andy Kroll says that we canapos;t talk about unemployment without also talking about race. He is a reporter for Mother Jones magazine and an associate editor at TomDispatch.com. He joins us via skype from Washington, DC.

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