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"SER VING THE
STATE'S AFRICAN-AMERICAN CO
MARCH 22' 28, 1987
NEWS BRIEFS
CP co FEDER TE FL GS RE OYED
Greenvill .. - The A P h pa dare luti n
calling f r the removal of Confederate fl flying above the
tate capital buildin in outh C rolina and I barna. The
re luti n al called on Georgia and issis ippi to remove
onfederate ymbol fr m their tate flags. The civil rights
rganizati n uthea t Regional Direct r Earl Shinhoster
declared • e don't need the Confederate flag as a reminder
of days that should have been buried.' He labeled the flag
"a symbol of racial animosity and an in ult to Bla k pe pie."
The onfederate flag w d pted a a symbol of th 11
outhern t te hich attempted to bre a ay from the re t
f he c unt durin the ivil ar in a id t maint in
slavery. hinh ter threatened legal acti n if the fla were
n t rem ved.
DOCTORSF
tlant G. - ju t relea d tudy ha f und that Black
d ctors re lOt imes more likely than hite d ctors to uffer a
he rt att ck. The study compared the incidence of heart
m n men who h d gr du ted from predominantly
eharry edical College in ashville with men who
h d gradu ted from predominantly white John Hopkins
School of edicine. The findings ere released t the recent
econd lnterdi iplinary onference on Hypertension in
Blac s, The conference too pl ce in Atlanta. eanwhile
the tudy al found that 4 % of Black doctors had developed
high blood pre re compared to 17% of hites.
B CUE PLOY C GED
shin ton D. . - ccording to 'the Labor Department
the unemployment rate among American Blacks held teady
I t month at 14.3%. ean hile j ble ne arn n hite
declined from 5. % to 5.7%. Thu the percentage of Blac s
ithout job nearly � time that for white in the mon h
of Febru ry.
LA
DE DIES 0 IDS
o benef.its for 2 0
W ASHI GTO - The per-
centa e of jobles Americans
receiving unemployment bene­
fits in 1986 dropped to the
lowe t level recorded in the
program's history, with fewer
than one out of every three
unemployed workers collecting
benefits in an vera e month,
the Center on Bud et and
Policy Priorities rep rted today.
Only 32,9 percent of the
unemployed received benefits in
an average month in 19 6
leaving 5.5 million jobless work­
ers without ch a sistance in an
average month, according to the
enter'a analysi of .S. 0-
partment of Labor data.
Thi record 10 cover ge
mar ed the third con cutive
year th t the level fell bel w
35 percent, in pite of a con­
tinuing ec n mi recovery. the
tudy st te Pri r t 19 4
the percent e of un mpl yed
rker receivin n fit h d
only fallen I
nee in 1
to 39 percent.
p rcentage receivin
rood at 50 p rcent.
, Although e h ve
free from re e . n f r
ye rs, the unempl yment
tern i pr vidin f le
e than during previ u
mic rec veri, id
Re arch Director J hn
man. • The afet
3 lob es
unempl yed families - e pecial­
ly those out of r for long
peri ds of time - has eroded
substantially. '
The 5.5 million unemployed
workers without benefits last
year is more than 1.5 million
greater than in any year in the
1970's and nearly a high a
in 1982 during the depth f
the recession hen the unem­
ployment rate averaged 9.7
percent. The rep rt states that
19 6 marked the fifth con-
cutive year that the numb r
of jo le s worker without bene­
fit equaled r exceeded 5.5
milli n. Prior to 19 0 this
number never e e ded 4 mil-
li n.
The rep rt al f und that
the total arn unt of unemploy­
ment in urance benefit provid­
ed in 19 6 a 59 percent
le after adiustin for in­
flati n than it h d b en a
dec de earlier in 1 76, de pite
the fa t that 00.000 m re
per n ere unemployed in
an vera e m nth in 19 6
than in 1976. .
In 47 state fewer than
half of all joble or ers
received benefits in an aver e
month in 19 6 and in 6
tates fewer than one-third
received benefits.
In Michigan unempl yment
rates ranged fr m to 10
percent while the p rcenta e
of j ble s wor er getting
enefit as only 3 t .. 9
p rcent.
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