Equity & Justice

Equity: Youth Unemployment Hits Blacks Hardest

NPR Illinois | 91.9 UIS | By Maureen Foertsch McKinney

Published February 15, 2016 at 10:08 AM CST

Youth unemployment is at crisis levels in Illinois, especially in Chicago among blacks and Latinos, according to a study released last month by the Great Cities Institute at the University of Chicago. An author of the study, the institute’s director Teresa Córdova says, “the crisis of joblessness for young people of color is chronic and concentrated.”

To see the study, go to https://greatcities.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ASN-Report-v3.2.pdf

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Maureen Foertsch McKinney

Maureen Foertsch McKinney is news editor and equity and justice beat reporter for NPR Illinois, where she has been on the staff since 2014 after Illinois Issues magazine’s merger with the station. She joined the magazine’s staff in 1998 as projects editor and became managing editor in 2003. Prior to coming to the University of Illinois Springfield, she was an education reporter and copy editor at three local newspapers, including the suburban Chicago Daily Herald, She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Eastern Illinois University and a master’s degree in English from UIS.

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