25
/ U.L State
of Black
-.------. m rica
EW YORK - The pr ent
economic recovery has failed to
reach Black America where the
income level now is 10 er than it
as at the start of the 1980
rece ion leaVing it in the grip
of the mo t severely depre ed
economic condition of the po t­
war period.john E.Jacob, Presi­
dent of the National Urban
League, declared here Thurs­
day, January 13, 1986, as he
released the NUL'I annual
report on the tatus of Blac ,
"The te of Blac America - .
9 .
Speaking of the mood within
Black America, Jacob Id:
"There i • gro in move­
ment within thi community.
that emphasize doin more for
ou lves. And it is not a move­
ment of despair, but rather on
of hi h hopes born out of the
conviction that while e cannot
change ome circumstance,
there re many thing that e
can do to tour hou in or­
der."
Jacob pointed to gro ing .
community activitie in the
area of t ena e pre nancy,
education, crime and the pli ht
if female-headed households,
bu t he I 0 arned that ther are
clearly definable area in hich
government assistance i Hindi
p nsibl such as hunger, po­
verty and unemployment." He
added:
ductive or and the s ills train­
in nece ry to obtain and hold
job.
The e tabU hment of full
employment policy that ould
have a multitude of elements
includin macro-economic p0-
licies and tax reforms that tt­
mulate expanded economic c­
tivity nd encoura e maximum
of the 1 killed and
educated ork
Describing the Rea an Ad­
ministration's civil righ ts record
"voodoo civil rights," he said
that While profe log to be sup­
portive of civil ri hts, th Ad­
ministration ha ho n by its
deeds that it is ctually a ain t
civil rights and de erve the
ob ervati n of th Leader hip
Conference on Civil Rights that
it has "the or t civil righ
r cord of any administration in
more than half a century."
Thi ye r' edition of "The
State of Blac America" con­
tains ei ht paper prepared by
outstanding experts in their
field. The p per and authors
ar :
THE CASE FOR SOCIAL
POLICY - Dr. B rnard E. Ander­
son, Visiting Fello t the
Woodro Wi on School of
Public and International Af­
fair, Princeton Univer lty;
ATIO AL H USI G
POLICIES AND BLACK
AMERICA: TRE D I SUES,
A D I MPLI CA no S - Pro-
fe or John O. Irnore, A
Continued on P.g 2
• A major challen e in the
cornin ye r ill be to reord r
national priorities for e can't
allow people to suffer more-­
they've already been driven to
the all by earlier cut in ur­
vival pro ram that helped in­
ere e poverty and hun er in
this rich land."
To deal ith unernploy-
ment-- nd sp cifically Blac
male unemployment hich
Jacob id h had a "dev tat­
ing' eff ct on Blac Am rica-­
he propo d:
The e t bli hment of
tion 1 Youth Employm nt
Program that includ duca­
tion, trainin nd ork com­
ponents .
. A U niver al Employm nt
and Trainin System that ould
guarant e the unemployed pro-
STEPHA IE HAWKI S,
ISS COVERT 1986 . Story on P.g 14