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Unemployment and Race

Who says corporate racism is dead? While this tool from the New York Times doesn’t specifically attribute the difference in unemployment rates by race to racism, it is hard to ignore it. It is true that not all groups have felt the effects of the recession equally. Here are a few charts I found quite interesting (click to enlarge).

White College-Educated Males from 25-44

Black College-Educated Males from 25-44

Hispanic College-Educated Males from 25-44

White Men and Women All Ages and Education Levels

Black Men and Women All Ages and Education Levels

Hispanic Men and Women All Ages and Education Levels

11/10/2009

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As someone who has recently joined a new team (well, actually, rejoined an old team that has all new processes), I’m going to start keeping a WTF Notebook. This is such a great idea, I wish I would have thought about it months ago. Never too late to start.
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There’s smart, and then there’s NASA engineer smart and a code change that traveled over 15 billion miles in over 22 hours. NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Updates to Earth.
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I still remember watching this game.
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Watching Detroit play Tampa Bay and listening to the Detroit broadcast team talk about how the Cardinals are struggling so bad offensively this season. Embarrassing.
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Trying out FreshRSS on a PikaPod since i cannot figure out how to get auto-refreshing work with my shared hosting’s cron tab. Downside is PikaPods only refresh twice an hour. Still waiting to see if it actually works.