Researchers: Nothing Stops A Bullet Like A Job

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youthjobs
Kent Wang / flickr

Researchers: Nothing Stops A Bullet Like A Job

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A new study out of the University of Illinois at Chicago shows huge racial disparities exist in youth unemployment in Cook County.

Young white people have higher employment rates than their black and Latino counterparts. These findings were discussed by Cook County Commissioners at a board hearing Tuesday they called: Nothing Stops a Bullet Like a Job. WBEZ’s Natalie Moore reports.