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The economy has hurt most every demographic there is, but for those who are young, less educated and black it's really bad. The October jobless rate for high school dropouts was 15.5 percent; for teenagers it's 27.6 percent. NYT's Economix has the charts.
Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted
until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.