A recent NPR and Kaiser Family foundation poll shows although the long-term unemployed face many of the same difficulties regardless of race, there are distinct differences between blacks and whites struggling to find work.
Out-of-work blacks, whites, Latinos and Asians all took part in the NPR-Kaiser survey. There was only a large enough sample of blacks and whites, however, to specifically break out their responses.
"First of all, we found that among those people who have been unemployed for a long time, African-Americans make up a greater share of that population than they do of full-time workers," says Kaiser Family Foundation Researcher Liz Hamel.
