Highlights of the June 2011 Employment Report:

Announcement by the National Urban League

Monthly Employment Report 2011

News of disappointing May and June employment gains (less than 50,000 for both months combined) along with slower economic growth for the first two quarters of 2011 (0.4% in Q1 2011 and 1.3% in Q2 2011) signal an urgent need for a national plan to grow the economy and put people back to work. This was the message of the National Urban League’s Annual Conference convened last week in Boston where we issued an Open Letter to the President and Congress, urging their support in the War on Unemployment, that has already been signed by nearly 2,000 people. Also released last week was “At Risk: State of the Black Middle Class”, a report from the National Urban League Policy Institute, showing that almost all the economic gains that blacks have made in the last 30 years have been lost in the Great Recession that started in December, 2007 and in the anemic recovery that has followed since June, 2009.

Join us Friday, August 5, 2011 from 2-3pm, EST for a live online chat ( http://www.iamempowered.com/article/2011/08/03/join-online-chat-about-jobs-friday-august-5-2011-2-3pm-est )
hosted by Dr. Valerie Rawlston Wilson, economist at the National Urban League, to discuss the newly released July employment statistics, the “At Risk: State of the Black Middle Class” report and implications of the debt ceiling deal that was reached this week.