Submitted by David Ramos
Check out the Community Service Society’s recent research on poverty among Blacks and Hispanics and its impact in NYC. David Jones the President & CEO of the Community Service Society in a recent interview, shared some startling stastics, he said that there were 170,000 young people out of work and not presently enrolled in school; 60,000 on parole and that 32% of Black males (1/3) will are incarcerated in NYC. And that one third of the voting age citizens are living in poverty who they address as the "unheard third." What does this mean politically?
For more information click on the following interesting links:
www.cssny.org/pdfs/uht06slides/ImmigrantSurvey.pdf