With unemployment among blacks at more than 15 percent, the N.A.A.C.P. will join several other groups on Tuesday to call on President Obama to do more to create jobs.
The organizations — including the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group— will make clear that they believe the president’s $787 billion stimulus program has not gone far enough to fight unemployment.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/us/17labor.html?_r=2&ref=us&pagewanted=print
The organizations — including the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group— will make clear that they believe the president’s $787 billion stimulus program has not gone far enough to fight unemployment.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/us/17labor.html?_r=2&ref=us&pagewanted=print
By Steven Greenhouse -- New York Times
Updated: Wed, Dec 2nd 2009 @ 1:08pm EST