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......Porter, Brenda. Black Males Locked Out of Jobs: White Ex-Cons More Likely to Find
Work than Black Counterparts, 2006. Black Enterprise: Earl G. Gravis Publishing Co., Inc., 2006. Retrieved on March 2, 2009 from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mim1365/is736/ain26245110?tag=content;col1

Porter connects the findings of a 2004 study conducted by Princeton University

sociology professors and the hypothesis on employer discrimination and race in contemporary urban labor markets. Professors Bruce Western and Devah Pager conducted the study on 13 young male applicants in 1,470 private companies in New York City in February 2004. They found that Blacks with no criminal record were treated the same way as white males with criminal record in finding employment. Employers also refused employment to 57% of Black applicants but only to 35% of white applicants. Latinos had a higher acceptance rate than Blacks. Gerald D. Jaynes of the Black Enterprise Board of Economists was not surprised by the findings. He interpreted these to mean that employers in general would give a second chance of employment to whites who committed a mistake. But they would not take the same risk with Blacks with a criminal record
Levitan, Mark. A Crisis of Black Male Employment: Unemployment and Joblessness in
New City. Community

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