Saturday, October 15, 2005
Disgusting Numbers...
Mike Bloomberg touts his revival of New York City.1 comments
He has done some very good things for New York.
But, squabble over spinning these numbers as the two campaigns may, these are still very bad numbers for our CEO / Mayor.
the proportion of minority men who are employed—not unemployed—a statistic known as the employment-to-population ratio. He found that in 2004, 60.7 percent of working-age black men and 67.7 percent of Hispanic men were employed. Both groups trailed behind white men, who had a ratio of 76.6 percent.
Again, that's:
White men: 76.6% employed
Black men: 60.7% employed
Hispanic men: 67.7% employed
The campaigns are geeking over what you can say the inverse of these numbers "really mean," but these numbers are butt-ugly all by themselves.
Because, they are core numbers.
Who wants to do the research into breaking this data down? What income levels do the bulk of those white jobs land on? Or what is their median or average wage/salary or compensation?
What then of the average/median wage/salary level for the Black group or the Hispanic group?
These numbers are ugly all by themselves. But when you consider they're comparing every Bernie Ebbers with every garbage-hauling porter of your corner pizza shop, you start seeing Democrat Freddy Ferrer is definitely onto something.
He just didn't spin it correctly.
Clean up your act, Freddy, and do it again!
posted by Gotham 1:02 PM
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