Blacks hard-hit by loss of middle-class jobs

Courtesy MSNBC.com: Business  Tue, 12/01/2009 - 06:37

Lynn Chess has worked at the NUMMI automaking plant for nearly 20 years.<br /><br />She faces unemployment, though, as Toyota intends to halt production at the factory in March. Millions of  workers have lost good jobs in this recession, but experts say the repercussions could  prove especially dire for black workers who had climbed into the middle class.


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