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Count Them, Then Hire Them – NJ Urban News

Summary by NJURBANNEWS
Three weeks before he was killed, Martin Luther King Jr. stood up in a high school gym in Michigan and argued with a number. It was March 1968. The government said unemployment in the Black community was 8.8 percent. King said it was almost twice that. Not because anybody was cooking the books. The country felt good about jobs that spring. The national unemployment rate was 3.6 percent, near the lowest since the Korean War. Washington called tha…
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NJURBANNEWS broke the news on Tuesday, August 18, 2026.
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