Apartheid. USA 1988

January 15, 1987:

The National Urban League released a 234-page report, The State of Black America, asserting that black Americans have been made victims of the Reagan Administration policies, that are ‘morally unjust’, ‘economically unfair’ and have widened the economic and social gap between the races. John E Jacob, president of the League, said that Government figures showed that by 1985 the median income of blacks had declined to 56 percent of the white median income. The unemployment rate among adult

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blacks was 15 percent in 1985, as against 7 percent for adult whites. Unemployment among black youths increased from 24.4 percent in 1960 to 40 percent by 1985. As a result, Mr Jacob said, hundreds of thousands of black youths 18 to 25 years old had never had a full-time job and were destined never to have one.^25.

25. The New York Times, from a report by Lena Williams