Blacks Hit Hard by Public Sector Layoffs
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 1st, 2011 5:46 am by HL
Blacks Hit Hard by Public Sector Layoffs
Don Buckley lost his job driving a Chicago city bus almost two years ago and has been looking for work ever since, even as other municipal bus drivers around the country are being laid off. At 34, Buckley, his two daughters and his fiancee have moved into the basement of his mother’s house. He has had to delay his marriage, and his entire savings, $27,000, is gone. “I was the kind of person who put away for a rainy day,” he said. “It’s flooding now.” Buckley is one of tens of thousands of once solidly middle-class African-American government workers who have been laid off since the recession ended in June 2009.