The young and ethnic followed the Left, as they always will, in voting for their "president cool" and "he's one of us".  Now, deal with it.

The unemployment rate for African-Americans at the beginning of the recession, in December of 2007, was 8.7 percent. Black unemployment rate is now near 16 percent, according to the report.

Particularly troubling: Nearly 40 percent of young Blacks are unemployed. Asian-American undergraduates are more likely to be unemployed after graduation than their peers. Also worrisome; young people who are unable to enter the labor force fail to develop skills that would enable them to obtain jobs in the future.

But...but...but, what about all that hopey Hope and changey Change?  Somebody, please go interview Peggy Joseph again.

Asian-American poverty and employment levels tend to be similar to Whites, giving a misleading impression of economic parity, said Lisa Hasegawa, executive director of the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development.

"Asian sub-populations have vastly different statistics with regard to poverty in the general Asian-American population," she said.

For example, in California, which has the largest Asian and Cambodian population in the United States, more than 40 percent of Cambodians live in poverty. Asian-Americans are also losing homes at a faster rate than the general population.

For Latinos, the unemployment situation is complicated by many employers' reluctance to hire permanent workers.

"There's nearly 3 million people working in [temporary] employment services," said Catherine Singley, a senior policy analyst at the Economic and Employment Policy project at the National Council of La Raza. "It's unsustainable for Latinos to have such a tenuous hold on permanent employment. It's not the way to build a true recovery."

Further, the lack of a path to citizenship for undocumented workers creates a "two-tiered, second-class workforce" in which many immigrants[STOP]

Sorry, but I had to stop the rest of the article there as it takes a real Leftist calling for amnesty.  Bullsh!t.  Spin it any way you want with the Asians and Latinos... it's their ESL, or in reality the lack of, that is keeping them down.  If they were all legalized today, they still can't speak English and are a burden to our English speaking world especially as China and India westernizes.  Think about how many billions of English users they've cultivated to become economic heavyweights.  America is sucking hind tit for a reason, comprenda?

Bottom line, all this catering to languages other than English with my tax dollars is just prostituting a Party vote for non-English users of a hyphenated American first victimhood mentality.  It's a short term multicultural divisive gain at the cost of our slipping into the sunset American melting pot culture.  English first.

My state government should not be enabling this for either Party.