统计显示美国黑人更易失业

统计显示美国黑人更易失业

Medgar Evers College, whose student body is nearly 90 percent black, is filled with hard-working students fulfilling their degree requirements. But unlike their white peers, African Americans overall are statistically 1 much more likely to be unemployed 2, according to findings from the 2015 State of Black America report by the National Urban League.

梅格艾佛斯学院的学生几乎90%是都是黑人,这些学生都为拿到自己的学位而刻苦努力。但与白人同龄人不同的是,全国城市联盟2015年美国黑人状态报告显示据统计非洲裔美国人整体上更易失业。

Despite annual increases in high school graduation and college attendance rates, unemployment figures for blacks are as high as 20 percent in seven of the country's largest cities. The current national unemployment rate is 5.5 percent.

尽管高中毕业及大学出勤率呈现年度增长趋势,但全国7个最大城市中黑人的失业率高达20%。而目前全国失业率是5.5%。

"The recession is over, except that the recession is still raging in many urban communities."

“若非许多城市社区仍受经济衰退影响，或许它早就结束了。”

The study links education and joblessness, says Morial. He points to the 36 percent national proficiency 3 gap between blacks and whites in math and reading as a major indicator 4 of future inequality.

莫里尔表示这项研究与教育和失业挂钩。他指出作为未来不平等的主要指标的数学和阅读方面黑人和白人有着36%的国家水平差距。

“The United States must close the gaps-must close the achievement gap, must close the jobs gap-it is essential to America's economic competitiveness in the 21st Century."

“美国必须缩短这个差距，必须缩短这一成就上的差距,必须缩短工作方面的差距,因为这对美国在21世纪的经济竞争力至关重要。”

Medgar Evers College, which hosted the report's release, is taking proactive steps to make sure graduates are ready for the workplace.

举办此次报告发布的梅格艾佛斯学院正采取积极措施确保毕业生们为就业做好准备。

President Rudy Crew.“More and more we're having everything from career days to a real focus on the network, if you will, that it takes not just to enter your chosen career but to really get the job that you want,"

主席鲁迪·克鲁说道。“我们在从招聘会到真正专注于网络投入很大精力,如果你愿意,这不仅仅是你选择职业,而是真正得到你想要的工作,“

College senior Shemroy Primo interned 5 with the Brooklyn District Attorney's office to make himself a more attractive candidate for law schools.

在布鲁克林地区检察官办公室实习的大学四年级学生塞莫利·布里默正将自己锻炼成为一名对法学院更有吸引力的候选人。

He says he was disappointed but not surprised by the study's findings.

他表示自己倍感失望,但对研究结果并不感到惊讶。

“But as a black man, it's really hard out there in the job market. I went to high school in Brooklyn, East New York, so I have a lot of friends who are really looking up to me and really proud of me because I've taken a different route, I've gone to college. I'm a senior, I'm a rising senior and I plan to go to law school."

“但是作为一个黑人,在就业市场真的很难找到工作。我曾在纽约东部布鲁克林的高中就读,所以很多朋友真的很羡慕我而且真的为我感到骄傲,因为我选择了一条截然不同的道路,那就是我进入大学。我是一名大四学生,现在是一名准毕业生,我打算去法学院。”

However, the Urban League study indicates there is still employment bias 6.

然而城市联盟研究表明仍然存在就业偏见。

“One thing that was troubling was that even when a black person had the same academic background, the unemployment rates seems to be still higher for black Americans. People ask me why and I think it is the presence still of exclusion 7 and discrimination in the work force to some extent," said Morial.

“令人不安的一件事是,即使黑人有着同样的学术背景,失业率似乎显示美国黑人更高。人们问我为什么,我认为在某种程度上对劳动力仍然存在排斥和歧视。”

Because of this, Primo says he must work twice as hard to earn a spot in the workplace.

有鉴于此布里默表示说必须加倍努力才能在工作当中赢得一席之地。