While unemployment has been a major impediment to African-Americans' economic progress, underemployment is a bigger obstacle for them than it is for whites or Hispanics, the National Urban League says in its latest State of Black America report.
Mar 10

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press
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